RN 0.74 and the new --experimental-debugger

[ashtar23]

Hello,

Hopefully this hasn't been already asked, tried going through some of the opened and closed tickets, and haven't found anything similar.

I've been trying to enable and test the new experimental debugger in a Nx workspace but haven't found any clear instructions on how to do so. According to the official docs, enabling the new debugger requires running:

npx react-native start --experimental-debugger

For instance, my usual command to run an iOS debug build with Nx is:

yarn ios --simulator "iPhone 15 Pro"
This translates to:
nx run-ios [app-name]

Here's the relevant config for run-ios in my project.json:

"run-ios": {
			"executor": "@nx/react-native:run-ios",
			"defaultConfiguration": "integration",
			"options": {
				"port": 8080
			},
			"configurations": {
				"integration": {
					"scheme": "[app-name]"
				},
				"staging": {
					"scheme": "[app-name]"
				},
				"production": {
					"scheme": "[app-name]"
				}
			},
			"dependsOn": ["sync-deps", "pod-install", "i18n", "storybook-generator"]
		},

[phazei]

Same, I'd say it's a bug that it doesn't allow this.

[phazei]

I was able to run it with the experimental debugger with this command added to project.json:

        "start": {
            "executor": "@nx/react-native:start",
            "options": {
                "port": 8081
            },
            "configurations": {
                "clean": {
                    "resetCache": true
                },
                "experimental-debugger": {
                    "experimental-debugger": true
                }
            },
            "dependsOn": [ "sync-deps" ]
        }

[ashtar23]

That's awesome! Gonna give it a go