I'm wondering if react-native's Remote Debugger mode would be possible also on real device. But it stops me with an error page stating
"Connecting to http://localhost:8081/debugger-proxy?role=client timed out"
The interesting fact here is that this URL won't also work on my developer machine.
Opening this URL (http://localhost:8081/debugger-proxy?role=client) in a browser on my developer machine with running packager.js will respond with:
Cannot GET /debugger-proxy?role=client
When I turn off Remote debugger, everything works as expected.
Steps to reproduce:
- react-native init testapp
- cd testapp/ios
- open the .xcodeproj-File with XCode
- Select my connected iPhone as target device
- Run the application
The application will fetch the source code from my local machine. In order to make this work, both, the iPhone-device and my iMac, are connected to the same WiFi.
The ReactNative-Application is executed on the iPhone as expected. With the shake-gesture I spawn the developer menu and select the option "Debug JS Remotely".
Now this error appears as mentioned above.
Following a side note in running-on-real device I changed the Host from localhost to the IP-Address of my Mac in RCTWebSocketExecutor.m, but this results in an endlos loop while fetching.
The Question is:
How can I use the Remote JS Debugging-Feature on real device?
Update
After further investigation I came to the conclusion that this might be a bug and opened the following issue on GitHub.