Cannot open any debugger

[ZRunner]

Description

Since a few days I am not able to open any debugger from my React Native app, neither Chrome nor the "react native debugger" app.

When I open the debug menu in my app, I get two tools to open: "Open Debugger" or "Open React DevTools". None of them actually open anything. The only visible effect is a message in the metro console:

• info Opening flipper://null/Hermesdebuggerrn?device=React%20Native... when pressing the debugger option
• info Opening flipper://null/React?device=React%20Native... when pressing the React DevTools option

For what it's worth, I don't even have Flipper installed. I should also add that on iOS, the cmd D or cmd R shortcuts don't work, neither typing "d" in my metro console, I have to go to the Simulator menu and shake the device when I want to open the debug menu.

I already tried to restart the simulator, uninstall and reinstall the app, restart Metro, even restart my computer. I do not have any debugger open in Chrome as well.

When I created a new app from scratch with no other library than react/react-native and their dependencies, I was able to get the "Debug with Chrome" option, and clicking on it actually opened the Chrome debugger. So it seems to be related to my project more than a general issue. The only difference I could spot was that on the clean install, the debugger was labelled by "Running JSI (<some JSI version>)" instead of "Running JSI (HermesRuntime)" for my project.

Version

0.68.2

Output of npx react-native info

System: OS: macOS 12.4 CPU: (8) arm64 Apple M1 Pro Memory: 425.97 MB / 16.00 GB Shell: 5.8.1 - /bin/zsh Binaries: Node: 16.15.0 - /usr/local/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.19 - /opt/homebrew/bin/yarn npm: 8.13.2 - ~/Documents/taketurns-mobile/node_modules/.bin/npm Watchman: 2022.07.04.00 - /opt/homebrew/bin/watchman Managers: CocoaPods: 1.11.3 - /opt/homebrew/bin/pod SDKs: iOS SDK: Platforms: DriverKit 21.4, iOS 15.5, macOS 12.3, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5 Android SDK: API Levels: 28, 30, 31, 32 Build Tools: 29.0.2, 30.0.2, 30.0.3, 31.0.0, 32.0.0, 32.1.0 System Images: android-30 | ARM 64 v8a, android-31 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a, android-32 | Google APIs ARM 64 v8a Android NDK: Not Found IDEs: Android Studio: 2021.2 AI-212.5712.43.2112.8609683 Xcode: 13.4.1/13F100 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild Languages: Java: 17.0.3 - /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17/bin/javac npmPackages: @react-native-community/cli: Not Found react: 17.0.2 => 17.0.2 react-native: 0.68.2 => 0.68.2 react-native-macos: Not Found npmGlobalPackages: react-native: Not Found

Steps to reproduce

It seems to be only my installation, so N/A

Snack, code example, screenshot, or link to a repository

I was not able to reproduce the bug in a new project, and the project I'm working on is private, so N/A. But I'm willing to provide any required info to debug this situation.

Here is the (not working) debug menu on an iOS 15.5 simulator:

[JedShiMing]

me too. Did you figure it out

[ZRunner]

me too. Did you figure it out

Sadly no. I’m back to the good old method of console.debug lol

[JedShiMing]

I can be, You need to download this app first

Flipper consists of two parts:

• The desktop app.
• The native mobile SDKs for Android and iOS, the client for JavaScript, or even a third-party client you could implement yourself or find on the web.

[SurajMDurgad]

+1

I don't want to use Flipper!

[ZRunner]

As of react native 0.68.5 and iOS 16.1 (macOS 13.0), this issue is still not fixed, and I still didn't get any viable workaround

[electronicheart]

me too. Who solved the problem

[electronicheart]

me too. Who solved the problem

[krisidmisso]

same issue on RN 0.72.3 @cortinico Cannot debug anywhere since I use Redux and nested objects are not formatted in Flipper

[timorss]

any news?

[krisidmisso]

@timorss the new react native has an experimental debugger now (standalone version of chrome console):

Start metro:

react-native start --experimental-debugger

Inside the terminal press J

[pgpankajcapgemini]

@timorss the new react native has an experimental debugger now (standalone version of chrome console):

Start metro:

react-native start --experimental-debugger

Inside the terminal press J

Is it work for physical device ?

[muhammadvsashfaq]

+1 I don't understand why React team leaves a crucial bug to fix it later in future. 😂😂😂

[muhammadashfaq]

+1 IDK When this issue will be fixed.

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