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@react-native/debugger-frontend
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Debugger frontend for React Native based on Chrome DevTools
Debugger frontend for React Native based on Chrome DevTools.
This package is internal to React Native and is intended to be used via @react-native/dev-middleware.
The package exports the absolute path to the directory containing the frontend assets.
const frontendPath = require('@react-native/debugger-frontend');
// Pass frontendPath to a static server, etc
Source code for this package lives in the facebook/react-native-devtools-frontend repo. See below for how we build and check in changes.
The compiled assets for the debugger frontend are periodically checked into this package under the dist/ folder. To update these, run node scripts/debugger-frontend/sync-and-build from the root of your react-native checkout.
# For main
node scripts/debugger-frontend/sync-and-build --branch main
# For stable branches (e.g. '0.73-stable')
node scripts/debugger-frontend/sync-and-build --branch 0.73-stable
By default, this will clone and build from facebook/react-native-devtools-frontend.
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Debugger frontend for React Native based on Chrome DevTools
The npm package @react-native/debugger-frontend receives a total of 3,369,074 weekly downloads. As such, @react-native/debugger-frontend popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @react-native/debugger-frontend demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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