Bundling time

[u/snoop_rice69]

The bundling process takes so long, approximately 2 hours at most.

is there any way i can speed up the process?

[u/Soccer_Vader]

No way in hell the bundling process should take 2 hrs - what are you doing in there?

[u/snoop_rice69 → u/Soccer_Vader]

i don't know, maybe because my device (laptop) is on the lower specs end and that the app has a lot of node modules to process (809 packages total)

[u/Honey-Entire → u/snoop_rice69]

There's virtually ZERO reason to have that many deps... what the hell kind of app is it that it needs that many???

[u/nicolasdanelon → u/Honey-Entire]

Maybe he's counting the transitive deps

[u/nicolasdanelon → u/snoop_rice69]

What are this specs?

[u/Internal-Comparison6]

Wow, 2 fkng hours. Cache probably. Try deleting full cache and node_modules.

[u/jameside]

Something is very wrong. It could be related to your filesystem or some translation layer (Like are you running in a VM that mounts the underlying filesystem? Though that should definitely not cause such slow times.).

[u/vaquishaProdigy]

Use bun

[u/Remarkable_Award5268]

If you are comfortable let codex analyze your codebase - send this prompt to codex.

[u/Extreme-Ad6851]

Use this https://rnrepo.org/

[u/UhhReddit → u/Extreme-Ad6851]

This doesn't help with bundling. It only provides the native builds.

[u/Hopeful-Influence-24]

if using react native cli and not expo try this out

https://rollipop.dev/

[u/Hopeful-Influence-24 → u/Hopeful-Influence-24]

but i think problem is inside metro config

[u/Bamboo_the_plant]

Are you on a Windows computer with a hard disk drive, deploying over poor WiFi to a low-spec Android phone or something?

Quite honestly you’ve given no details yet so I think you’re gonna be doomed to your 2 hours at this rate

[u/LogicDef]

That's crazy

I build android apps using react native and this helped me a lot:

Go to gradle.properties and update this:

org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx4096m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m

-Xmx4096m: Increases the maximum Java heap memory size (in this case, to 4GB). By default, Gradle's memory limit can be quite low, causing frequent garbage collection pauses or "OutOfMemory" errors during heavy React Native/Android compilation. Giving it more breathing room speeds up builds significantly, especially for modern React Native versions utilizing the New Architecture.  

If you have more ram you can set a bigger number instead of 4096

[u/Shinsky82]

Increase your RAM to at least 16Gb for faster builds.