Okay I am sorry for this question but I am new to React Native and VS code and have to do a university project which I am not able to start because I can’t get the debugging tool to work.

I have already installed everything I need and created my app by using npx create-expo-app projekt1hciA2. I opened the folder in VS code and started the app on my emulator in android studio. Everything seems to work fine, I can write code in React Native and am connected to my emulator.

Then I installed “React Native Tools” and created a launch.json file which currently looks like this:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Attach to packager - Experimental",
            "request": "attach",
            "type": "reactnative",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
        }
    ]
}

I want to debug by using “attach to packager”: I start the app by using npx expo start and I open it in the android studio emulator. Then I click on the start debugging button and it looks like this:
Screen when starting Debugging

But why does it not stop at the breakpoints? Reloading the app doesn’t change anything. What am I missing?

I tried the other debugging options/configurations too. Opening JS Debugger through the menu in the emulator in android studio gives me this error message: “Error launching JS inspector: _open.default.openApp is not a function” and trying to debug in chrome also doesn’t work because it cannot build a connection (maybe because of the wrong port number?).