flipper-headless-demo

headless-demo

Experimental feature!

Flipper can run plugins in a headless mode - expose their API over the wire. This is a simple example of how it might look like.

Quick start

0. Run yarn from this repo to install dependencies
1. Start Flipper Server: from desktop folder run yarn flipper-server
2. Start an Android device
3. Run yarn start from this repo

What happens under the hood

0. This script connects to Flipper via WebSockets
1. It fetches a list of devices
2. It fetches a list of available headless plugins for the Android device
3. It activates headless-demo plugin
4. It sends increment command to the plugin