Here are some notes about common things that go off the rails.
Life is better with NPM 3.x. NPM 2.x kept nested dependencies in sub-folders. In version 3, they try to flatten as many dependencies up to the node_modules level.
As a result, you will discover things missing like ramda and socket.io-client.
Either upgrade to NPM 3 or teach me how to fix this! It must be possible! Help!
If you're using an emulator like Genymotion or the one in Android Studio, or even if your own device, you can still use localhost (the default) to connect provided you port forward back to your computer.
While plugged in type:
adb reverse tcp:9090 tcp:9090This only works on Android 5.x+.
As of 1.1.4, the proper IP address is auto-discovered. Simply leave the configure as is.
You'll need to turn of remote JS debugging as it hijacks the websocket channel between your app & Reactotron.
@zalmoxisus has let me know that it is a React Native >= 0.31 specific issue.
Hopefully we can delete this section soon.