Automatically set a debug server host & port for device in react-native apps

Question

Is there a way to automatically set the Debug server host & port for device in react-native apps?

I have to trigger this menu and set a proxy for my app and I want it to be done automatically when the app is installed. Is that possible?

Urson

Answer 1

I wrote a little package for this because it was driving me nuts. Check it out here:

npm i @nick-bull/react-native-debug-address

# DEBUG_HOST=127.0.0.1:8081 npx react-native start --port 8081
# or, equivalently
DEBUG_PORT=8081 npx react-native start --port 8081

npx react-native run-android --port 8081 

Horsetail

Answer 2

Try this :

add to package.json scripts

"android": "react-native run-android --host=<ip-address>:8081"

then to run to start up project

npm run android

Or:

take a look at this

How to modify IP & port use react-native Android?

Lunseth

this doesnt work error: unknown option ``--host'` – Isadoraisadore