Alex Hunt
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Summary: Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/40766 This changeset allows users to opt into the new debugger frontend experience by passing `--experimental-debugger` to `react-native start`. **We are defaulting this option to `true`** for now, but will continue to evaluate this feature before 0.73 ships. It restores Flipper (via `flipper://`) as the default handling for `/open-debugger` (matching 0.72 behaviour) when this flag is not enabled. Detailed changes: - Replaces `enableCustomDebuggerFrontend` experiment in `dev-middleware` with `enableNewDebugger`. The latter now hard-swaps between the Flipper and new launch flows. - Removes now-unused switching of `devtoolsFrontendUrl`. - Implements `deprecated_openFlipperMiddleware` (matching previous RN CLI implementation). - Disables "`j` to debug" key handler by default. - Marks "`j` to debug" and `/open-debugger` console logs as experimental. Changelog: [Changed][General] Gate new debugger frontend behind `--experimental-debugger` flag, restore Flipper as base launch flow Reviewed By: motiz88 Differential Revision: D50084590 fbshipit-source-id: 5234634f20110cb7933b1787bd2c86f645411fff
@react-native/dev-middleware
Dev server middleware supporting core React Native development features. This package is preconfigured in all React Native projects.
Usage
Middleware can be attached to a dev server (e.g. Metro) using the createDevMiddleware API.
import { createDevMiddleware } from '@react-native/dev-middleware';
function myDevServerImpl(args) {
...
const {middleware, websocketEndpoints} = createDevMiddleware({
projectRoot: metroConfig.projectRoot,
serverBaseUrl: `http://${args.host}:${args.port}`,
logger,
});
await Metro.runServer(metroConfig, {
host: args.host,
...,
unstable_extraMiddleware: [
middleware,
// Optionally extend with additional HTTP middleware
],
websocketEndpoints: {
...websocketEndpoints,
// Optionally extend with additional WebSocket endpoints
},
});
}
Included middleware
@react-native/dev-middleware is designed for integrators such as @expo/dev-server and @react-native/community-cli-plugin. It provides a common default implementation for core React Native dev server responsibilities.
We intend to keep this to a narrow set of functionality, based around:
- Debugging — The Chrome DevTools protocol (CDP) endpoints supported by React Native, including the Inspector Proxy, which facilitates connections with multiple devices.
- Dev actions — Endpoints implementing core Dev Menu actions, e.g. reloading the app, opening the debugger frontend.
HTTP endpoints
DevMiddlewareAPI.middleware
These are exposed as a connect middleware handler, assignable to Metro.runServer or other compatible HTTP servers.
GET /json/list, /json (CDP)
Returns the list of available WebSocket targets for all connected React Native app sessions.
GET /json/version (CDP)
Returns version metadata used by Chrome DevTools.
GET /debugger-frontend
Subpaths of this endpoint are reserved to serve the JavaScript debugger frontend.
POST /open-debugger
Open the JavaScript debugger for a given CDP target (direct Hermes debugging).
Example
curl -X POST 'http://localhost:8081/open-debugger?appId=com.meta.RNTester'
WebSocket endpoints
DevMiddlewareAPI.websocketEndpoints
/inspector/device
WebSocket handler for registering device connections.
/inspector/debug
WebSocket handler that proxies CDP messages to/from the corresponding device.
Contributing
Changes to this package can be made locally and tested against the rn-tester app, per the Contributing guide. During development, this package is automatically run from source with no build step.