Stories not loaded for new generated react native application by expo cli.

[igorgidea]

Describe the bug
After adding storybook for new expo react-native blank project and run command "npm run storybook", browser opens up but no stories displayed at all, only "forever stories loading" on the left panel.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. create new react-native project with expo run: expo init myNewProject
2. Setup React Native Storybook run command: npx -p @storybook/cli sb init --type react_native
3. Replace content of App.js with these lines:

 import StorybookUI from './storybook';
export default StorybookUI;

4. Run Storybook by command: npm run storybook

Expected behavior
Should be displayed stories on left sidebar in browser.

Screenshots

System:
Windows 10
node 12.18.0
Storybook 5.3.19
expo 38.0.8
In browser Google Chrome 84.0.4147.8 or Firefox 78.0.2 there is "forever stories loading" on the left panel

[dannyhw]

might be a duplicate of #55

[dannyhw]

You should run storybook server and then after run the react native app then if you refresh the webpage for react native server the stories should load.

[dannyhw]

I found there is an issue when using a real android device with expo. It can be resolved by specifying your port and host explicitly

When you start up the server you should see something with your IP here
On your network: http://xxx.xxx.x.xx:7007/

Take this IP and set it explicitly as the host and then the storybookui should be able to reach the server

In code

const StorybookUIRoot = getStorybookUI({
  host: "192.111.1.11", // replace with your ip address
  port: "7007"
});

In package.json "storybook": "start-storybook -p 7007 -h 192.111.1.11"

Make sure to replace 192.111.1.11 with your local ip address

This should resolve the connection issues
adb reverse tcp:7007 tcp:7007 also if it still doesn't work