Task :app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets FAILED - React Native - Android

Question

Getting this error in my React-Native app when I run on Android using npx react-native run-android --variant=release or generate a Release Build. I tried whatever solutions I found on Stackoverflow and GitHub like - upgrading gradle build tools version, modifying babel.config.js, clean project, --reset-cache, rm -rf node_modules and reinstall, Invalidate and Restart, etc. but none of it solved. It is a blocker since I am not able to generate a build to publish.

I have provided the only stacktrace error available.

> Task :app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets FAILED

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0.
Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings.
See https://docs.gradle.org/6.8.1/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings
5 actionable tasks: 5 executed
The system cannot find the path specified.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.  

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets'.
> Process 'command 'cmd'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

Another information I noticed is I am getting the above stacktrace when the build execution executes :app:bundleReleaseJsAndAssets and reaches react-native-animated. I tried the solutions suggested from the similar issues reported in react-native-animated but that too didn't fix.

I am not able to find whether the issue is with the package or the local project setup.

Also I noticed that the package doesn't seem to be configured properly in Android. Screenshot attached below for reference. This package alone doesn't have the right arrow.

Library versions:

"react": "16.13.1",
"react-native": "0.63.4",
"react-native-reanimated": "2.1.0"

Gradle info:

classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.1")
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.8.1-all.zip

Android Studio Version: 4.2.1

Any Suggestions?

Answer 1

While checking this answer I found that the below line was present in my code

project.ext.react = [
   nodeExecutableAndArgs : ["/usr/local/bin/node"]
];

My other RN projects doesn't have this line but worked fine. So removing the line nodeExecutableAndArgs : ["/usr/local/bin/node"] fixed the issue.

Answer 2

I was getting a similar issue. After struggling with it for a few hours, realised it was due to babel.

Upgrading babel to latest version helped me resolve this issue.

Hope this helps someone.