[edit - I thought I was using Hot Reloading, but I am actually using Live Reload]
I have a native plugin that needs to do some clean up each time it is finished with. Basically I want to prevent these errors:
Calling JS function after bridge has been destroyed: RCTDeviceEventEmitter.emit(..)
componentWillUnmount() doesn't get called.
Live reloading will restart the app and load the app back to the initial route when a file changes. ComponentWillUnmount won't be called.
When you reload, what happens behind the scenes is that the react context is getting destroyed, and a new one is being created.
That error get's thrown whenever a Native Module is trying to do work, by using the old react context.
You could use something like this: Error Boundary in react
Just wrap the error prone code inside the ErrorBoundary component, e.g.
<ErrorBoundary><childComponentCausingError></ErrorBoundary>
And in the ErrorBoundary component, you could just catch the error in componentDidCatch = (error, info) => {
}
componentDidCatch() is a lifecycle method in React.