React-native-windows: Could not find [email protected].*. Latest version of react-native-windows is 0.39.1, try switching to [email protected].*.

[davidpodhola]

After following the guide on a freshly installed computer, I get this error message

Could not find [email protected].*. Latest version of react-native-windows is 0.39.1, try switching to [email protected].*.

[nomadnic]

You can get past this by using an older version of react-native when creating your project:
react-native init --version="0.39.1" MyProject

I would definitely like windows to be updated to 0.40.* or even better, merged into the core react-native project.

[matthargett]

We're hoping to do a 0.41-rc package this week or next, sorry for the delays. React Native Windows isn't a copy of the upstream React Native repository with changes on top -- it's a platform plug-in. This structure allows us to do releases outside of the regular React Native cadence to respond to emergency hot fixes, and allows users who are maintaining forks to cherry pick Windows-specific improvements without sifting through the noise of commits in other platforms.

Being on a team building an enterprise desktop product using React Native Windows, this gives us more operational flexibility than RN on iOS or Android. It does mean RNW maintainers (myself included) need to be better about spinning releases to stay in sync. 0.40 was a particularly challenging upstream release for many people to integrate, and we were trying to wait until some of the dust had settled before integrating.

I hope this helps clear things up! :)

[davidpodhola]

Yes, thanks :)