microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
`run-windows` documentation now has `--client-logs`, but it just throws an error because it wasn't implemented
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Description
Problem Description
This PR added --client-logs to playground's start script. That's fine, the start command has the argument.
But the documentation for the run-windows command was updated to say it also supports that argument:
+ | `--client-logs` | boolean | Enable plain text JavaScript log streaming for all connected apps |
However there's no actual code to make that happen.
Steps To Reproduce
- Call
yarn react-native run-windows --client-logs
yarn run v1.22.22
$ C:\code\rnw\node_modules\.bin\react-native run-windows --client-logs
error: unknown option '--client-logs'
error Command failed with exit code 1.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
Expected Results
Logging is enabled in Metro as per the new documentation.
CLI version
17.0.0
Environment
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System:
OS: Windows 11 10.0.27908
CPU: (20) x64 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13800H
Memory: 12.33 GB / 31.83 GB
Binaries:
Node:
version: 18.18.0
path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
Yarn:
version: 1.22.22
path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin\yarn.CMD
npm:
version: 9.8.1
path: C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Watchman: Not Found
SDKs:
Android SDK: Not Found
Windows SDK:
AllowDevelopmentWithoutDevLicense: Enabled
AllowAllTrustedApps: Enabled
Versions:
- 10.0.19041.0
- 10.0.22000.0
- 10.0.22621.0
- 10.0.26100.0
IDEs:
Android Studio: Not Found
Visual Studio:
- 17.14.36301.6 (Visual Studio Enterprise 2022)
Languages:
Java: Not Found
Ruby: Not Found
npmPackages:
"@react-native-community/cli": Not Found
react: Not Found
react-native: Not Found
react-native-windows: Not Found
npmGlobalPackages:
"*react-native*": Not Found
Android:
hermesEnabled: Not found
newArchEnabled: Not found
iOS:
hermesEnabled: Not found
newArchEnabled: Not found
Community Modules
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Target React Native Architecture
None
Target Platform Version
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Visual Studio Version
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Build Configuration
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