How send request from react native to local server

Question

I am using android emulator and when i send request to localhost it gives me error. I have tried the forwarding the port also ngrok but none of them worked for me. It always gives me error. [Error:Network Error].

Answer 1

IN Emulator go to setting->click on Network and Internet ->then select Internet->select available network and then re-run your project and check it will work

Answer 2

Please try http://10.0.2.2:8080 instead of localhost:8080.

If you are referring your localhost on your system from the Android emulator then you have to use http://10.0.2.2:8080/ Because Android emulator runs in a Virtual Machine therefore here 127.0.0.1 or localhost will be emulator's own loopback address.

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