Short lived TextView causing error "Trying to set local data for view with unknown tag: 4" on Android in RN 0.50.3

[meros]

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment:
OS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6
Node: 8.3.0
Yarn: 1.1.0
npm: 5.4.2
Watchman: 4.9.0
Xcode: Xcode 9.1 Build version 9B55
Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4408382

Packages: (wanted => installed)
react: 16.0.0 => 16.0.0
react-native: 0.50.3 => 0.50.3

Steps to Reproduce

Create a view with a TextInput, make sure this view is showing when app is loaded but hidden quickly after (due to asynchronous event).
2.
Let this app load in the android emulator
3.
Once in a while you get error "Trying to set local data for view with unknown tag: 4"

Expected Behavior

I expect removing the TextInput shortly after app loading to work every time on Android without any errors

Actual Behavior

There seems to be a race condition when starting up the app causing the error

Reproducible Demo

Run this demo in the simulator. I have not been able to reproduce this on a device

https://github.com/FranklyDev/react-native-0_50_3-android-bug-testcase

[meros]

Please note that I can reproduce the error only maybe once/10 reloads or so.

[matthamil]

I'm also experiencing this. I get it every time I render a TextInput and immediately hide or transition to another screen.

[wangghon]

There is a change in 0.51.0-rc.1, no exception anymore.
f2c6877#diff-e40bcf61507821200dcf1f573eb717e3

[matthamil]

That change isn't published to npm yet is it? Is the solution to compile RN from source? @wangghon

[wangghon]

0.51.0-rc.1 is not published to npm yet. I think it would be soon. need to build react-native from source to make the change take effects

[arashmilani]

Is there any other workaround other than compiling RN from source

[yaohongkok]

@wangghon I am wondering when will '0.51.0' be available officially on NPM?

[wangghon]

@yaohongkok I am waiting for the release as well. Hope it can be released soon.

[phu-tang]

I faced this problem when upgrade to react-native 0.50 :( but a little bit ( ... tag: 20) not sure it's relative but stacktrace is the same

[GitHubTracey]

working with RN 0.50.4 and experiencing the same issue.

[ociata]

Any workaround at least until it is merged?

[jerameel]

Having this issue on 50.4 using windows, error occured on both emulator and actual device

[arashmilani]

I'm developing a redux-react-native app and as a workaround I just delay the rendering by some milliseconds between two states changes using a simple setTimeout while dispatching the next action.

[jerameel]

how would you know where to add the delay? I'm on redux now