Ping IP Address in React Native

ping.js

fetch('http://localhost')
  .then((response) => {
    console.log('response ', response)
    if (response.status === 200) {
      console.log('success')
    } else {
      console.warn('error')
    }
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error('network error: ' + error)
  })

This is not actually ping, this will send a http request into the server and wait for its response.
This approach will cost more resource and time than ping.

What would you recommend instead?

ping

What about a lightweight solution? It seems oversized to build an app to ping a server.

@rodrigobdz you are assuming web server is running in that host, it might be just ftp,dns,etc. In those cases fetch won't work

@rodrigobdz you are assuming web server is running in that host, it might be just ftp,dns,etc. In those cases fetch won't work

@veera83372 Thanks for the heads-up

just a heads up. It doesn't work when you try to ping (fetch) an http URL from a https host.