Cannot change variable (React Native)

[Gustl22]

Hi there,
sorry if this isn't concerning this plugin, but I didn't experience it on any other place.
If I change the environment variable inside the .env file, the value isn't updated in the app itself.
I use React Native with Expo and debug the value inside IntelliJ (Ubuntu).
Tried following to update the value:

• npm cache verify
• npm cache clean --force
• set api.cache(false); in babel.config.js
• npm start --clear and npm start --reset-cache
• cleared App storage (of Expo) / uninstalled
• set option {unsafe: true} in .babelrc / babel.config.js
• set option {systemVar: 'disable'} in .babelrc / babel.config.js
• logout from PC
• ( no .cache folder in /node_modules, so cannot delete it (even not hidden) )

The only thing which worked was to completely restart my PC, so I definitely changed the right file.
Any solution to not need of restart after changing values?

[anjulalk]

It looks like you need to clear Metro cache for the changes to reflect. This is the same issue #13
For Expo, this solved my issues: expo start -c

[Gustl22]

Hey @anjulalk, yeah that solved it!

For better explanation: I already tried npm start --clear which I thought is the same as expo start --clear or expo start -c. But thats not the case.

To pass arguments to npm scripts (in package.json) you have to separate them with two hyphens: npm start -- -c.

So for IntelliJ Debug Configuration I came up with this: