microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
Enable access to the developer menu through NativeModules.DevMenu from within the RNW app context
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Description
Hello, I am from React Native Tools VS Code extension developement team. In the extension we have special command palette commands to reload the attached app and to show React Native Developer Menu in it. In RN Android we do that via adb commands, in iRN OS we do that via require('NativeModules').DevMenu.show() and require('NativeModules').DevMenu.reload() during debugging, but in React Native for Windows 0.60.0-vnext.105 there is no DevMenu in the NativeModules list.
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So we'd like to ask if the team plans to implement access to the DevMenu from the NativeModules package, or maybe there are some other alternatives for programmatically accessing Developer Menu during debugging?
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Research direction
The issue names no files or tests. Start by tracing how React Native Windows exposes native modules and how the existing developer menu is invoked; confirm whether show and reload can be exposed through NativeModules. Done means the RNW app context provides the requested DevMenu operations during debugging, with coverage for both commands.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react-native
- Domain
- developer-experience, mobile-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100