Developer Instructions are out-of-date

[TheTechmage]

The developer instructions contained within the readme seem to be a bit out-of-date. In a couple locations, they refer to using node 20. In another, they talk about using node 18. When using the legacy expo-cli package (which the commands allude to), expo says that it doesn't work on node 17+ and they recommend using the new version of expo via npx expo. Running npx expo . android:start appears to work at first glance, but once the app makes it to the phone I get an error stating: Base quick-sqlite module not found. Maybe try rebuilding the app. Since compiling with expo seemed to have failed, I took a look inside of package.json and found various build commands for android. However, when I tried to run them, my system complained about the eas command not existing (I thought the yarn install should have handled that kind of thing)

Anyways, as a "new developer" with a fresh environment, I'm at a loss as to how I should proceed. I have no clue what this "eas" binary is, nor do I know why expo isn't finding the sqlite module once it tries launching the wallet app..

To put that all in list form:

• Inconsistent node versions
• out-dated expo commands
• missing packages when launched through expo
• missing commands for manual build (yarn run build:android:*)

Do you have any advice as to what I might be missing? I followed the current build steps as closely as I could, without success.

[berkes]

Another out of date documentation item is the use of yarn.

Documentation says npm install --global yarn but the package.json requires a modern yarn through corepack.

error when running e.g. yarn install:

error This project's package.json defines "packageManager": "yarn@4.9.2". However the current global version of Yarn is 1.22.22.

[berkes]

The devscript build:android:local needs a command named "eas" that's not available too:

yarn run build:android:local
# command not found: eas

it does not appear to be in the dependencies and no instructions in the README to install it or mark it as requirement either.

[berkes]

There appears to be a difference in the mentioned "quick-sqlite" error, between running with expo go, and running on the emulator.

Above error Base quick-sqlite module not found. Maybe try rebuilding the app. only appears when running through and with expo-go.

In an emulator (Pixel_3a_API_34_extension_level_7_x86_64) the splash screen of the app opens, the emulator then uses 30% of the host machine CPU but shows no logs, no errors and the emulated phone os/gui is unresponsive.
Opening a the "Javascript inspector" in a browser shows the error Base quick-sqlite ... after about 15 minutes and a virtual reboot of the emulated phone.

It may be that this is a compatibility issue with the emulator, but it seems some in-app process is running in an infinite loop, or is performing unexpected work in the background.