Error of Electron not supported on IOS when installing IPFS on MacOS

[emclab]

• Version:ipfs 0.40.0,
• Platform: macOS Catalina
• Subsystem: Node 12.16.0, nodes-mobile-react-native 0.5.0, React Native 0.61.5

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Error: Electron builds are not available on platform: ios
at getPlatformPath (/Users/zhouyiyun/Documents/js/ipat_test1/ios/build/ipat_test1/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/ipat_test1.app/nodejs-project/node_modules/ipfs/node_modules/electron/install.js:68:13)
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at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1157:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1177:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1001:32)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:900:14)
at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:74:12)
at internal/main/run_main_module.js:18:47
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Command PhaseScriptExecution failed with a nonzero exit code

** BUILD FAILED **

The following build commands failed:
PhaseScriptExecution [CP-User]\ [NODEJS\ MOBILE]\ Build\ Native\ Modules /Users/zhouyiyun/Documents/js/ipat_test1/ios/build/ipat_test1/Build/Intermediates.noindex/ipat_test1.build/Debug-iphonesimulator/ipat_test1.build/Script-821AE48DBADAD4819E69BEC8.sh

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Steps to reproduce the error:

[emclab]

The error happened when launch the app with npx react-native run-ios.

[achingbrain]

/Users/zhouyiyun/Documents/js/ipat_test1/ios/build/ipat_test1/Build/Products/Debug-iphonesimulator/ipat_test1.app/nodejs-project/node_modules/ipfs/node_modules/electron/install.js:68
throw new Error('Electron builds are not available on platform: ' + platform)
^

Error: Electron builds are not available on platform: ios

Electron is indeed not available for iOS so this error makes sense. What makes less sense is why it's trying to install electron in the first place.

It could be related to ipfs/aegir#516 but it's hard to know for sure.

Similar to my request on one of your other issues can you please share a runnable example?

By this I mean please create a simple github repo that I can clone, run npm install in, then npx react-native run-ios and see the same error message. Then we will get to the bottom of this and, I suspect #2768 as well.

[achingbrain]

I take it you're using npm to install your project dependencies?

If so, could you try removing your node_modules folder and installing with yarn?

[emclab]

I use yarn and tried npm as well. I repeated creation process a few times. The error here is after yarn add. The only code I have is:

 const IPFS = require('ipfs');

The execution of this line stuck. The issue should be related to module nodejs-mobile-react-native as well. But I don't know which module may have more into it.

[emclab]

yarn add ipfs has error about gc-stats but not electron. not sure why yarn and npm have different errors.

[achingbrain]

Ok, can you please create and share a github repo with a small demo project in it that shows the problem along with instructions on how to replicate?

I'm not a react native expert so it would be really helpful.

If you like, you could PR a react-native example to https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples that just starts an IPFS node and shows the peer ID and agent version similar to the browser-create-react-app one?

[emclab]

Hi, I uploaded my test code to https://github.com/emclab/test_ipfs_nodejs_mobile_react_native. somehow I could not PR to the js-ipfs.

After clone the project on MacOS catalina, with Xcode 11.3 installed (Here is the RN get started). do the following:

1. in project root, type yarn install
2. cd to ios, type pod install
3. from project root, cd nodejs-assets/nodejs-project
4. type npm install ipfs
5. in project root, type npx react-native run-ios

There will be build error. Please be noted that nodejs-mobile-react-native will not throw error if there is error in main.js (where ipfs is required). It just hangs without emitting any message. Thanks for checking.

[achingbrain]

React Native is not (yet) a supported platform for running js-IPFS - we're working on adding support over at #2813

Once that issue is resolved we'll be in a better position to debug and fix problems with IPFS running on RN, so if this problem still occurs after that is complete please re-open this issue.