Catch exceptions in Transformer construction #351
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Summary
When transformerPath is set in metro.config.js, if there is a failure in loading the custom transformer, the exception is silently swallowed and all the user sees is this misleading error message (see below). In this patch, we add a catch to the promise to report the original exception to the user.
Test plan
Set an invalid transformerPath in metro.config.js to reproduce: