Expo and Vagrant

Question

I am trying to build a react-native-app on a vagrant linux box.

I am trying to access the app on my phone using expo but it just does not work.

Has anyone managed to make this work with port forwarding or something similar?

Answer 1

You need to have the linux box on the same network as the phone.

Answer 2

To make this a little more specific, the vagrant file should include the following line(the ip address is optional): config.vm.network "public_network", ip: "ip address"

for example:

1. config.vm.network "public_network"
2. config.vm.network "public_network", ip: "192.168.1.9"

Here are a couple of useful links:

1. Youtube tutorial by sureshkm

2. Vagrant docs