Can only use one device at a time

[shilman]

Issue by mnmtanish
Tuesday Jun 21, 2016 at 06:35 GMT
Originally opened as storybook-eol/react-native-storybook#6

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Only one device can use the packager server at a time. It would be great if the storybook can be run on multiple devices simultaneously.

[shilman]

Comment by mnmtanish
Sunday Jul 17, 2016 at 18:15 GMT

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This can be done using the bundled version. Unfortunately it won't work with hot module reloading.

[shilman]

Comment by mnmtanish
Sunday Jul 17, 2016 at 18:31 GMT

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Created a feature request on productpains.com here.

[ndelangen]

@Gongreg @tmeasday Is this still true? I heard someone say he could connect multiple devices?

Can you close or comment?

[tmeasday]

I'm really not sure.

[shilman]

I don't know the solution but @ajwhite figured this out. It hasn't been merged/contributed yet.

[danhawkes]

@shilman Can you point to where @ajwhite says this? Can't find it in any of the related issues.

[Gongreg]

There are two solutions:

1. Running hosted storybook server, so multiple devices can connect on same storybook server (work in progress to make it easier to use).

2. Start multiple storybooks with different ports (if not implemented shouldn't be difficult to implement).

[danhawkes]

The use-case I'd like to see supported would be to control multiple devices simulataneously via the storybook UI. E.g. I click on a story and all devices update to show that story. Ideally the UI could show a list of connected devices somewhere.

Think the only way that can work is via solution 1. Not clear on why it'd need to be hosted though? - assuming the storybook UI is already acting as a server and the device as a client.

[Gongreg]

Right, you can actually do that but only for multiple devices of same type (either ios or android). If you try to mix and match it starts to fail. But for multiple ios devices it works as you expect, you click on story and all devices show the story.

But you could try to start storybook separately (npm run storybook --skip-packager) from packager and then start as many packagers as you want.

[stale]

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[Gongreg]

I think we can close this issue. If you have questions you can ask more about it.