feat: add manual Cocoapods installation info (#2204)

* feat: add manual Cocoapods installation info

* feat: apply review comments

* fix: move logger.info out of nested if

* fix: hide banner in CI

* fix: check for Install cocoapods only on darwin

* test: check if cocoapods instruction is shown in another test

* Update packages/cli/src/commands/init/printRunInstructions.ts

Co-authored-by: Riccardo Cipolleschi <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Riccardo Cipolleschi <[email protected]>

Author: okwasniewski

__e2e__/init.test.ts

@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ test('init skips installation of dependencies with --skip-install', () => {
 
   expect(stdout).toContain('Run instructions');
 
+  if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
+    expect(stdout).toContain('Install Cocoapods');
+  }
+
   // make sure we don't leave garbage
   expect(fs.readdirSync(DIR)).toContain('custom');
 

packages/cli/src/commands/init/init.ts

@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ interface TemplateOptions {
   version?: string;
 }
 
+interface TemplateReturnType {
+  didInstallPods?: boolean;
+}
+
 function doesDirectoryExist(dir: string) {
   return fs.existsSync(dir);
 }
@@ -112,10 +116,13 @@ async function createFromTemplate({
   skipInstall,
   packageName,
   installCocoaPods,
-}: TemplateOptions) {
+}: TemplateOptions): Promise<TemplateReturnType> {
   logger.debug('Initializing new project');
-  logger.log(banner);
-
+  // Only print out the banner if we're not in a CI
+  if (!process.env.CI) {
+    logger.log(banner);
+  }
+  let didInstallPods = String(installCocoaPods) === 'true';
   let packageManager = pm;
 
   if (pm) {
@@ -196,6 +203,7 @@ async function createFromTemplate({
         const installPodsValue = String(installCocoaPods);
 
         if (installPodsValue === 'true') {
+          didInstallPods = true;
           await installPods(loader);
           loader.succeed();
           setEmptyHashForCachedDependencies(projectName);
@@ -207,6 +215,7 @@ async function createFromTemplate({
               'Only needed if you run your project in Xcode directly',
             )}`,
           });
+          didInstallPods = installCocoapods;
 
           if (installCocoapods) {
             await installPods(loader);
@@ -216,14 +225,34 @@ async function createFromTemplate({
         }
       }
     } else {
+      didInstallPods = false;
       loader.succeed('Dependencies installation skipped');
     }
   } catch (e) {
+    if (e instanceof Error) {
+      logger.error(
+        'Installing pods failed. This doesn\'t affect project initialization and you can safely proceed. \nHowever, you will need to install pods manually when running iOS, follow additional steps in "Run instructions for iOS" section.\n',
+      );
+    }
     loader.fail();
-    throw e;
+    didInstallPods = false;
   } finally {
     fs.removeSync(templateSourceDir);
   }
+
+  if (process.platform === 'darwin') {
+    logger.log('\n');
+    logger.info(
+      `💡 To enable automatic CocoaPods installation when building for iOS you can create react-native.config.js with automaticPodsInstallation field. \n${chalk.reset.dim(
+        `For more details, see ${chalk.underline(
+          'https://github.com/react-native-community/cli/blob/main/docs/projects.md#projectiosautomaticpodsinstallation',
+        )}`,
+      )}
+            `,
+    );
+  }
+
+  return {didInstallPods};
 }
 
 async function installDependencies({
@@ -282,7 +311,7 @@ async function createProject(
   directory: string,
   version: string,
   options: Options,
-) {
+): Promise<TemplateReturnType> {
   const templateUri = createTemplateUri(options, version);
 
   return createFromTemplate({
@@ -348,13 +377,20 @@ export default (async function initialize(
     return;
   }
 
-  await createProject(projectName, directoryName, version, options);
+  const {didInstallPods} = await createProject(
+    projectName,
+    directoryName,
+    version,
+    options,
+  );
 
   const projectFolder = path.join(root, directoryName);
 
   if (!options.skipGitInit) {
     await createGitRepository(projectFolder);
   }
 
-  printRunInstructions(projectFolder, projectName);
+  printRunInstructions(projectFolder, projectName, {
+    showPodsInstructions: !didInstallPods,
+  });
 });

packages/cli/src/commands/init/printRunInstructions.ts

@@ -13,7 +13,17 @@ import process from 'process';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 import {logger} from '@react-native-community/cli-tools';
 
-function printRunInstructions(projectDir: string, projectName: string) {
+interface Options {
+  showPodsInstructions?: boolean;
+}
+
+function printRunInstructions(
+  projectDir: string,
+  projectName: string,
+  options: Options = {
+    showPodsInstructions: false,
+  },
+) {
   let iosInstructions = '';
   let desktopInstructions = '';
 
@@ -34,7 +44,18 @@ function printRunInstructions(projectDir: string, projectName: string) {
 
     iosInstructions = `
   ${chalk.cyan(`Run instructions for ${chalk.bold('iOS')}`)}:
-    • cd "${projectDir}" && npx react-native run-ios
+    • cd "${projectDir}${options.showPodsInstructions ? '/ios' : ''}"
+    ${
+      options.showPodsInstructions
+        ? `
+    • Install Cocoapods
+      • bundle install # you need to run this only once in your project.
+      • bundle exec pod install
+      • cd ..
+    `
+        : ''
+    }
+    • npx react-native run-ios
     ${chalk.dim('- or -')}
     • Open ${relativeXcodeProjectPath} in Xcode or run "xed -b ios"
     • Hit the Run button