timeisgolden / capacitor-reactjs-template

capacitor-reactjs-template

This template should help get you started developing with React Ionic and Capacitor using Vite.

Updated 8/16/22

Getting Live Reload To Work In You Vite Ionic Project

I dont use Live reload that often, but this is a manual approach to get it going with the Vite project

First Start Your Server

devteam@DevTeams-iMac capacitor-reactjs-template % npm run dev

> [email protected] dev
> vite


  VITE v3.0.7  ready in 1856 ms

  ➜  Local:   http://localhost:5173/
  ➜  Network: use --host to expose

Then modify capacitor.config.ts using the address the server is running on from the command above

const config: CapacitorConfig = {
  appId: 'my.react.app',
  appName: 'my-react-app',
  webDir: 'dist',
  bundledWebRuntime: false,
  server : {
    "url" : "http://192.168.0.156:8100/"  //<= use address the server is running on locally
  }
};

Then modify vite.config.ts using the address the server is running on from the command above

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [react()],
  server: {
    host: '192.168.0.156',
    port: 8100
  }
});

And finally deploy your app to the device

devteam@DevTeams-iMac capacitor-reactjs-template % npx cap copy ios
✔ Copying web assets from dist to ios/App/App/public in 43.41ms
✔ Creating capacitor.config.json in ios/App/App in 1.12ms
✔ copy ios in 146.60ms
devteam@DevTeams-iMac capacitor-reactjs-template % npx cap open ios
✔ Opening the Xcode workspace... in 3.01s

Now your mobile app is pointing to the local server running and you basically have live-reload working. I am certain there is another approach, but like I said I don't use it often enough. Hopefully, this gets you moving

REMEMBER remove the edit to the capacitor.config.ts and vite.config.ts before deploying to production otherwise the app will be looking for the local server to run the app !!