I have been building a react native expo app from the latest version.

Everything was working fine until I got farther into the project.

It seems to be getting suck loading the Font. It will load it 25% of the time. I have tried serval different ways to use a callback make an await for the font but nothing seems to work.

I have reverted the code back to the boilerplate. And again. I will work 25% of the time.

for 20 minutes it will not load the font and go to the:

<Stack.Screen name=”+not-found” />

ill get frustrated trying to fix it and then boom it loads again no problem to the:

<Stack.Screen name=”(tabs)” options={{ headerShown: false }} />

Stack

here is the code:

import { DarkTheme, DefaultTheme, ThemeProvider } from '@react-navigation/native';
import { useFonts } from 'expo-font';
import { Stack } from 'expo-router';
import * as SplashScreen from 'expo-splash-screen';
import { useEffect, useCallback } from 'react';
import 'react-native-reanimated';
import { useColorScheme } from '@/hooks/useColorScheme';

SplashScreen.preventAutoHideAsync();

export default function RootLayout() {
  const colorScheme = useColorScheme();
  const [loaded] = useFonts({
    SpaceMono: require('../assets/fonts/SpaceMono-Regular.ttf'),
  });

  useEffect(() => {
    if (loaded) {
      SplashScreen.hideAsync();
    }
  }, [loaded]);

  if (!loaded) {
    return null;
  }

  return (
    <ThemeProvider value={colorScheme === 'dark' ? DarkTheme : DefaultTheme}>
      <Stack>
        <Stack.Screen name="(tabs)" options={{ headerShown: false }} />
        <Stack.Screen name="+not-found" />
      </Stack>
    </ThemeProvider>
  );
}

another note, as I make changes in another file it will crashout to the “+not-found” stack

but all I have to do sometimes is change a letter in a single component and it will work again.

from:

<Text>This is a test</Text>

to:

<Text>This is a testtttttt</Text>

and boom the whole app will load again.

any help would be greatly apperciated and if you need any more information let me know.

but again i change no config whats so ever, just add those “tttt”‘s and its back. Sometimes.