react-native-devtools-spy

Add this package to your react native project to get an extra "Spy" development menu option. Clicking the "Spy" button will turn on extra logs:

  1. All MessageQueue messages (messages going over the javascript <-> native bridge).
  2. All MobX events.

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-devtools-spy --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-devtools-spy

Manual installation

Android

  1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java
  • Add import com.reactlibrary.devtools.spy.SpyOptionsHandler; to the imports at the top of the file
  • Add import android.os.Bundle; to the imports at the top of the file
  • Add the following lines to the onCreate method:
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
          getReactInstanceManager().getDevSupportManager()
                  .addCustomDevOption("Spy",
                          new SpyOptionsHandler(
                                  getReactInstanceManager()));
      }
  }
  1. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:
    include ':react-native-devtools-spy'
project(':react-native-devtools-spy').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-devtools-spy/android')
  2. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:
      compile project(':react-native-devtools-spy')

iOS

  1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
  2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-devtools-spy and add RNDevToolsSpy.xcodeproj
  3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNDevToolsSpy.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
  4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Usage

Add the DevToolsSpy component to your view hierarchy:

import DevToolsSpy from 'react-native-devtools-spy';
...
render() {
    return (
      <View>
          {__DEV__ ? <DevToolsSpy /> : null}
      </View>
    );
  }

Run your application and open the development menu (shake/cmd+d/cmd+m).
Click on the "Spy" menu item.
Toggle the "Message queue" button.
In the console logs you will see the extra logs of all messages going over the native <-> javascript bridge, as such:

N->JS : RCTEventEmitter.receiveTouches(["topTouchStart",[{"target":9,"locationX":62.5,"pageY":389,"force":0,"locationY":22,"pageX":197,"identifier":1,"timestamp":190140621.128411}],[0]])
JS->N : UIManager.measure([12,33391])
JS->N : NativeAnimatedModule.createAnimatedNode([3,{"type":"value","value":1,"offset":0}])
JS->N : NativeAnimatedModule.createAnimatedNode([2,{"type":"style","style":{"opacity":3}}])

If you are using MobX inyour project also toggle the "MobX" button to log all MobX events, as such:

[MobX] {type: "update", object: {…}, oldValue: 1517169620887, name: "text1", newValue: 1517169740502, …}
[MobX] {object: Reaction, type: "scheduled-reaction"}
[MobX] {spyReportEnd: true}
[MobX] {object: Reaction, type: "reaction", fn: ƒ, spyReportStart: true}
[MobX] {time: 3, spyReportEnd: true}

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