Running react-native app on iOS device using offline bundle

Question

The official React Native documentation to run app on iOS device using offline bundle says

Open ios/YourApp/AppDelegate.m

Uncomment the line, jsCo

Answer 1

For me the problem was that I had fiddled with the Info.plist and removed the localhost app transport security exception. Adding this back into Info.plist fixed it for me:

NSAppTransportSecurity


    NSExceptionDomains
    
        localhost
        
            NSExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads