The Baffled Architect

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  • Expo on Codespaces

    What will I need? How long will it take? About ten minutes. Lets give it a go! Create a new Codespace using the blank template: Once initalised, create an empty Expo React App (select (y)es when prompted): Install the expo-cli command line tool globally: Change into your example project’s folder and edit App.js, maybe adding…

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    3/3/2023 8:48 PM

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    Coding, GitHub, Linux, React, Ubuntu, Windows

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    Coding
  • Metro not starting automatically on Ubuntu

    Expected behaviour: Should launch Metro and an Android emulator but Metro is not launched. Manually launching metro works:

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    4/2/2023 4:14 PM

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    Coding, Linux, React, Ubuntu

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    Linux
  • No Internet access in WSL

    Windows might generate a /etc/resolv.conf with an incorrect nameserver while installing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It’s a quick fix – edit /etc/resolv.conf and change the nameserver (Google’s is 8.8.8.8). To prevent it being overwritten, create or edit /etc/wsl.conf adding the option generateResolvConf = false.

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    9/10/2022 1:28 PM

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    Linux, Ubuntu, Windows, WSL

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    Linux, Windows
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