Create-react-native-app: Expo app - can't load project with message : This is taking much longer than it should...

[RomanSurface]

I have

• installed Node 8.11.0 on Windows 8
• installed npm install -g create-react-native-app
• created successfully a test project

create-react-native-app AwesomeProject
cd AwesomeProject
npm start

• installed expo client app on my iphone 5s, iOS 9.2
• sent the app url using email to my phone

I

• connect my iphone on the same network of my windows machine (wifi)
• click on the link contained in the email message
• accept to open the link in the Expo app
• the Expo app tries to launch the procjet but gets stuck givin this message

This is taking much longer than it should. You might want to check your interenet connection

• Expo app crashes
  It seems like the project is too heavy to be loeaded in the app, due to the list of node_modules installed.

How can i solve this problem?
I am stuck in development.

[brentvatne]

you need to be on the same wifi network and that wifi network cannot be a public network (eg: restaurant, cafe, school) that is behind a NAT. if this is the case then you will have to use a simulator

[RomanSurface]

i am on the same wifi network, and it is not a public one. it is my private house wifi

[brentvatne]

copy the url to your phone and open it in safari or chrome, let me know what you see

[RomanSurface]

@brentvatne i tried to open the url on safari (eliminating the prefix exp://) : the browser gets no response back (message : "safari cannot open the page cause the server stopped answering")
Do you think is there any firewall setting on the house router, blocking that port?

thanks a lot in advance

I tried to use the iphone as hotspot, connecting my windows pc to it, but i got the same problem.

edit
_looks like it's the firewall installed on the machine, in my case ZoneAlarm.
I have disabled it and now i do not receive that error message.
Still i cannot see my project but this is may due to other problems.
As soon as i will have the enviroment working, i will post here the steps i did to get the result.
Thanks_

[brentvatne]

thanks for the followup @RomanSurface! i'd also recommend updating the version of react-native-scripts in your project -- npm i [email protected] --save -- this fixes a small bug (that may or may not impact you) with loading projects that have spaces in the project path

[ghost]

I m having the same problem, turned off firewall and done all troubleshotting but still project is not opening in expo app

[manu-dikzit]

@Azambadar I faced the same problem. Turns out I was creating a "LAN" connection on the desktop expo server. Switching to "Tunnel" solved it for me

[ghost]

Hi @manu-dikzit , my wifi connection was not supporting expo and expo worked fine with mobile phone hotspot.

[AmanGupta-tech]

same problem can't able to open