Option to turn off remote debugging error

[jehillert-ziosk]

I had my app set up to use async-storage for redux persist when in development mode, and also to use react-native-debugger by turning remote-debugging back on. Later I had it use mmkv in production and async-storage in dev mode to avoid the error and preserve debugging capabilities. Still later, I wanted to use mmkv in other parts of my app, for parts I didn't need to debug. I don't want to have to comment out all that code to enable debugging. Can you guys provide a config option that lets us turn off the error? Or is using mmkv anywhere in the app always going to crash when remote-debugging is turned on?

[maintenance-hans[bot]]

Guten Tag, Hans here! 🍻

Thanks for your report. It seems like you want more control over debugging with mmkv, but I need more information to help you better. Could you please provide any relevant logs from your app? For example, if you're using Xcode for iOS, please check the logs in Xcode's console or for Android, you can use adb logcat. This will help mrousavy understand what is happening.

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[jehillert-ziosk]

I'm not sure logs will help. This is what I'm talking about: https://github.com/mrousavy/react-native-mmkv?tab=readme-ov-file#limitations

You specifically say it won't work. And of course when it's in there it throws the error. I mean to say, your code seems to detect whether remote debugging is on, and automatically throws the error no matter how your library is being used. Why tell me about the error if I'm not going to debug anything having to do with mmkv, even though I use it in my app?

[mrousavy]

Remote debugging is not supported because react-native-mmkv uses JSI.

You can try hotpatching this and removing the error throw from the code, but I think this will jsut crash differently, because again - remote debugging is not supported as react-native-mmkv uses JSI. JSI does not support remote debugging.

There's other ways to debug.

[jehillert-ziosk]

I think maybe I misunderstand. I don't want to debug anything to do with mmkv. I just want to be able to have it as a dependency. to call it in files, without sending it through redux devtools. It sounds like you are saying that the way remote debugging works will cause the app to break because it will interact with mmkv no matter how mmkv is used in the app?