rn-debugger is broken with react-native ^0.59

[laurentS]

With the extraction of the cli to @react-native-community/cli, the debugger is not starting anymore, failing with FAIL Inject RemoteDev server into React Native local server, the file not found.

It seems to be looking for the server.js file in the wrong place.

I'm using version 0.8.4 with react-native 0.59.10.

[wesleycoder]

There has been months since this issue was posted and no response or work has begun.
Does anyone has a workaround meantime?

[laurentS]

I tried to have a go at fixing this, but I'm changing things rather blindly and I don't really have time to dig further right now. Things I've seen:

• rn-debugger depends on an outdated version of remotedev-server, it needs to be upgraded to 0.3.1 or whatever is current
• there are fixes needed in both packages named above to account for the extraction of cli

It looks like a number of people have tried fixing various bits, without getting it to work fully:

• Fix injectServer & injectDebugger for rn > 0.60.0 zalmoxisus/remotedev-server#70
• account for the RN module breakout zalmoxisus/remotedev-server#69
• Fix inject debugger issue on react native v0.59 onward. #34

[Acetyld]

I tried so much! But i keep getting all kinds of errors. Most about the injecting part, i got it working with a old version of react. But can't seem to get it working with the new versions.. Damn i already put a good 6 hours in this

[angelod1as]

Is this repo still maintained?

[laurentS]

It's not really answering the question, but might help if you're stuck: this commit shows how I got around the issue for our app. I use a different debugging tool (which I think is a bit clunkier) but it sort of works.