Summary:
'source' is not available in all shells on Linux (e.g. dash) and will silently fail launchPackager.command when called from runAndroid.js.
react-native run-android will thus silently fail to start the developement server ('JS server').
What existing problem does the pull request solve?
When running "react-native run-android" on the below reasonably vanilla Ubuntu system, the development server / packager script fails to start. It fails because sh defaults to dash (not bash) which doesn't know the command 'source'. dot (.) does the same as source, but works in all shells.
$ uname -a
Linux dallas 4.8.0-52-generic #55~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 28 14:36:29 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ which sh
/bin/sh
$ readlink -f /bin/sh
/bin/dash
react-native-cli: 2.0.1
react-native: 0.44.0
$ ps aux | grep packager
(nothing)
ps aux | grep packager
sh /home/xxx/code/react-native/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native/packager/launchPackager.command
node /home/xxx/code/react-native/AwesomeProject/node_modules/react-native/packager/../local-cli/cli.js start
Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/14040
Differential Revision: D5096298
Pulled By: hramos
fbshipit-source-id: 88466e802c9bc4358840391edb37e153f0a6b1f7
Summary:
A quick fix to ensure RNTest works. This PR changes the process root for where packager is run, resulting in the right `cwd` directory path when RN launches RNTester.
Closes https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/13947
Differential Revision: D5052093
Pulled By: davidaurelio
fbshipit-source-id: 506a8cd63f1709c948bcc4586467020d380ba85e
Sebastian Bargmann
Dominic Gannaway
cpojer