React native change listening port

Not sure if this is documented or not[1], you can specify the port via a CLI argument, like this:

react-native start --port 9988

I found it in the source code, and it worked on my local machine 🙂

https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/local-cli/server/server.js#L30


[1] This is now documented here: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/troubleshooting#using-a-port-other-than-8081

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