I am using create-react-app and hosting in its default port localhost:3000 and want to access this from another device on the same network.
I got the IP of my host's IP (using ifconfig) 192.168.0.5 and tried opening 192.168.0.5:3000 but that did not work.
Is there any way to achieve this?
Simply run HOST=0.0.0.0 npm run start
.
Afterwards open the url from another device on the network.
In your case, 192.168.0.5:3000
would work.
Documentation for setting HOST environment variables.
As I can't post comment,
In complementary to Elad
if you have react-scripts start
instead of npm run start
HOST=0.0.0.0 react-scripts start
Works too !
Can you please turn off your firewall and check 192.168.0.5:3000.
Thanks
In my case, npm run start
used my Ethernet adapter's IP e.g. http://192.168.167.113:3000
but as I was accessing the site using WLAN, I needed to use WLAN IP which was 192.168.0.227
.
Make sure to use WLAN IP with the same port to make it work.