run-react-native

Simplify react-native development

If you've worked with react-native then you know how tedious it is to:

• Start the packager
• Start an emulator
• Install the build on the emulator

Sometimes you also need to do things like:

• Re-install the apk
• Re-start the packager

Do you have these open in separate terminal windows?

run-react-native is an interactive bash script that encapsulates all these commands for you and more so you can have only 1 terminal open and speed up your development cycle.

Installation

npm i -g run-react-native

Before you can run it you'll need to do a few things:

• Ensure emulator and adb are available in your $PATH.
• cd $YOUR_PROJECT
• Add export RUN_REACT_NATIVE_ANDROID_AVD='name-of-my-development-avd'. You can get the names of available avds on your system by running emulator -list-avds.

Example

In this screencast, I'll demonstrate run-react-native in action.

tl;dw

After the packager and emulator start:

• the apk is installed you then have the following commands available:
  • h, help - Prints this menu to stdout.
  • ke - Kills the emulator.
  • ra - Reinstalls the apk on the emulator.
  • rap - Reloads the app on the emulator.
  • re - Reloads the emulator.
  • rp - Reloads the packager.
  • ud - Updated the device time to match system time. Run this when you see warnings during debug sessions in chrome about the time being out of sync.
• Pressing CTRL-C exits the process and all child processes are killed.

TODO

• Add support for iOS

LICENSE

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