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Jan 31, 2023 ⋅ 11 min read

Choosing and connecting a React Native backend

Taofiq Aiyelabegan Taofiq is a technical writer and software engineer working on building mobile and web applications. Additionally, he likes to contribute to open source projects and exploring new topics.

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2 Replies to "Choosing and connecting a React Native backend"

  1. Hey Danny, As it was mentioned above:

    “React Native does not allow localhost for making connections and network requests with a backend that is not hosted on the internet.” That is why we are gertting the IP address and setting is as our base url during development so we can me HTTP requests.

    For example:

    let baseUrl = ‘http://172.29.xxx.223:3000’;

    const {data} = await axios.get(`${baseUrl}/workouts`);

    The ‘3000’ is the port on your local dev server.

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