Unable to build to iOS and find logs to help debug

[wickey312]

Hi there,

I’ve spent 2 days trying to fix my issues. I am trying to release a new app to EAS build on iOS. The error I get in the logs on EAS build site is:

Running "npm install" in /Users/expo/workingdir/build directory

[stderr] 

npm

[stderr] 

ERR! Cannot read properties of null (reading 'children')

[stderr] 


[stderr] 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:

[stderr] 

npm ERR!     /Users/expo/.npm/_logs/2023-08-14T23_18_44_554Z-debug-0.log

npm install exited with non-zero code: 1

First problem is that path doesn’t exist for the logs so can’t see if there’s any further clues… and secondly I’m not sure how to get past it now! On top of that, i’ve maxed out number of releases trying to fix it, but happy to upgrade if there’s a way to debug these types of issues…

Any ideas? Happy to debug if I can get hold of these local logs… I’m on a mac if that helps.

In your post, please share:

• Whether you are bare or managed workflow: managed
• Your eas-cli version: 4.1.2
• What you have tried so far: cannot find logs beyond generic error messages so hard to go further, have tried expo-doctor and all is green, locally building is working fine

[wodin]

Hi @wickey312

See this post:

eas build fail - showing "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'children')"

Are you using this? You don’t have react-dom or react-native-web, so maybe not unless maybe you’re bundling some stuff to load in a webview? If you’re not using it you might want to remove it. It should of course not be causing problems, but generally best to remove things you don’t need. Also, if you do need it it really belongs in devDependencies rather than dependencies. But that’s not the cause of the problem. If I try this with your deps it works for me. I was using yarn instead of npm, …

[wickey312]

@wodin you have literally changed my life - I love EAS again! Putting “eas-build-pre-install”: “npm config set legacy-peer-deps true”, has fixed it