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Running Flipper with Custom Ports

Flipper ports - mobile apps that support certificate exchange​

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By default, Flipper runs its servers on ports 9088 and 9089. The mobile SDKs look for servers on those ports.

Each of these can be overridden by setting an environment variable, with the format: ${INSECURE_PORT},${SECURE_PORT}.

To run the desktop app using custom ports, use the following:

env FLIPPER_PORTS=1111,2222 ./flipper

or with a dev build:

env FLIPPER_PORTS=1111,2222 yarn start

Android SDK​

To configure the Android SDK for custom ports, set the flipper.ports prop to your chosen ports 1111,2222 and then launch the Android app:

adb shell su 0 setprop flipper.ports 1111,2222

iOS SDK​

To configure the iOS SDK for custom ports, set the FLIPPER_PORTS environment variable in your app launch script or set it system-wide through User Defaults:

xcrun simctl spawn booted defaults write "Apple Global Domain" "com.facebook.flipper.ports" -string "1111,2222"

Flipper ports - apps that do not support certificate exchange​

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Flipper listens on port 8333 for unsecure (browser, Node.js) connections.

To run the desktop app using custom ports, use the following:

env FLIPPER_BROWSER_PORT=1111 ./flipper

or with a dev build:

env FLIPPER_BROWSER_PORT=1111 yarn start

To connect to Flipper on a different port from js-flipper, you need to override its urlBase when you start it.

flipperClient.start('React Tic-Tac-Toe', { urlBase: 'localhost:1111' });

Metro Server Ports​

You can also setup Flipper to use a different Metro Server port (default=8081) using this environement variable, as follows:

METRO_SERVER_PORT=3333 ./flipper

AD8 Reverse Proxy ports​

You can setup a different ADB port, used for reverse proxying when plugged through USB (default=5037), using the following:

ANDROID_ADB_SERVER_PORT=4444 ./flipper