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Test React Native on the simulator and on a device without editing the code each time!

In the default React Native app scaffolding you have to edit AppDelegate.m to change where it loads the code if you want to test on your device. I use the following snippet to detect if it's being compiled for Debug or Production and for the Simulator or a device. For Production it uses a copy of the code included in the bundle, for Debug on the simualtor it loads from a server on localhost and for Debug on a device it loads from a server on a given IP address.

NOTE: You need to edit YOUR-IP-HERE and change it to the IP to load the code from when in Debug mode on a device. You could use a service like ngrok to make this work from anywhere.

  NSURL *jsCodeLocation;

  // Loading JavaScript code
  #if DEBUG
    // For Debug build load from development server. Start the server from the repository root:
    //
    // $ npm start
    #if TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR
        // Run from locally running dev server
        jsCodeLocation = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://localhost:8081/index.ios.bundle"];
    #else
        // Run on device with code coming from dev server on PC (change the IP to your PCs IP)
        jsCodeLocation = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://YOUR-IP-HERE:8081/index.ios.bundle"];
    #endif
  #else
    // For production load from pre-bundled file on disk. To re-generate the static bundle, run
    //
    // $ curl http://localhost:8081/index.ios.bundle -o main.jsbundle
    jsCodeLocation = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"main" withExtension:@"jsbundle"];
  #endif
// My complete AppDelegate.m file
/**
* Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
* LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
* of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
*/
#import "AppDelegate.h"
#import "RCTRootView.h"
@implementation AppDelegate
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
NSURL *jsCodeLocation;
// Loading JavaScript code
#if DEBUG
// For Debug build load from development server. Start the server from the repository root:
//
// $ npm start
#if TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR
// Run from locally running dev server
jsCodeLocation = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://localhost:8081/index.ios.bundle"];
#else
// Run on device with code coming from dev server on PC (change the IP to your PCs IP)
jsCodeLocation = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://192.168.11.57:8081/index.ios.bundle"];
#endif
#else
// For production load from pre-bundled file on disk. To re-generate the static bundle, run
//
// $ curl http://localhost:8081/index.ios.bundle -o main.jsbundle
jsCodeLocation = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"main" withExtension:@"jsbundle"];
#endif
RCTRootView *rootView = [[RCTRootView alloc] initWithBundleURL:jsCodeLocation
moduleName:@"activeinbox"
launchOptions:launchOptions];
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds];
UIViewController *rootViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
rootViewController.view = rootView;
self.window.rootViewController = rootViewController;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
@end
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