Worklets.createRunOnJS stop the app

[IlyaZusko]

In my project, I use the frameProcessor from the react-native-vision-camera library. I have a code like this:

  const device = useCameraDevice('front');

  const {detectFaces} = useFaceDetector({
    classificationMode: 'all',
  });

  const handleDetectedFaces = Worklets.createRunOnJS(faces => {
    console.log('faces detected', faces);
  });

  const frameProcessor = useFrameProcessor(
    frame => {
      'worklet';
      const faces = detectFaces(frame);
      handleDetectedFaces(faces);
    },
    [],
  );

  return (
    <View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
      <Camera
        style={StyleSheet.absoluteFill}
        device={device}
        isActive={true}
        enableFpsGraph
        fps={15}
        videoHdr={false}
        frameProcessor={frameProcessor}
      />
    </View>
    )

When I launch the project and go to the screen where the function is called, the application immediately freezes and in xcode I get errors like in the screenshot below

My package.json

"react": "^18.3.1",
"react-native": "^0.74.3",
"react-native-vision-camera": "^4.4.1",
"react-native-vision-camera-face-detector": "^1.7.0",
"react-native-worklets-core": "^1.3.3",

My babel.config.js

module.exports = {
  presets: ['module:@react-native/babel-preset', 'module:react-native-dotenv'],
  plugins: [
    [
      'react-native-reanimated/plugin',
      {
        processNestedWorklets: true,
      },
    ],
    ['react-native-worklets-core/plugin'],
  ],
};

Initially, I assumed that this was due to the fact that I transfer too often from the worklet stream to the js stream, however, I also tried to write just a functional where, at the click of a button, I would transfer information to the js stream once and the application still hung with the same errors in xcode. Has anyone faced similar problems and how did you solve them?

[SarjuHansaliya]

Yeah I have been also facing the same issue. This started happening after I migrated to react-native-vision-camera v4.

Here is my dependancies

"react-native": "0.71.19"
"react-native-reanimated": "3.5.4"
"react-native-vision-camera": "4.5.0"
"react-native-vision-camera-face-detector": "1.7.0"
"react-native-worklets-core": "1.3.3"

And the fact is, If I create fresh project with above dependencies then it works. So I am clueless on how to debug this in my existing app.

@mrousavy I know you are very much busy, but just a guide on how to debug this would be really helpful.

[hannojg]

• @IlyaZusko can you please expand the left hand side menu in Xcode so we can see the full call stack? Right now its truncated
• Can you try just using the reanimated plugin? So try to remove this plugin entry ['react-native-worklets-core/plugin'], and see if it changes anything
• Could you add all your code in to a reproduction app? This will help us a lot debugging this issue!

[Meligy]

Hopefully this is not thread hijacking. But: what version of the library is recommended to use, that wouldn't suffer from this issue for example?

[SarjuHansaliya]

I upgraded to below versions and now its working without any issues

"react-native": "0.73.9"
"react-native-reanimated": "3.14.0"
"react-native-vision-camera": "4.5.1"
"react-native-vision-camera-face-detector": "1.7.0"
"react-native-worklets-core": "1.3.3"

[pvedula7]

Same issue, even with the packages from above comment.

[vijaysahani4115]

@IlyaZusko did you resolved this issue ?

[c-goettert]

I am facing the same issue..