Unable to run iOS on Device from Command Line - Simulator Works. RCT_METRO_PORT undefined

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• I am using the latest React Native version

I am unable to run my app on my iOS device via the command react-native run-ios --device. I am able to run it on the simulator via react-native run-ios and I am able to open the XCode project and run on my device directly from the project. When compiling, I receive the following error:

/Users/justin/VSCodeProjects/MyApp/node_modules/react-native/React/Base/RCTBundleURLProvider.m:17:53: error: use of undeclared identifier 'undefined'; did you mean 'underline'?
const NSUInteger kRCTBundleURLProviderDefaultPort = RCT_METRO_PORT;
                                                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                                    underline
In file included from <built-in>:359:
<command line>:5:24: note: expanded from here
#define RCT_METRO_PORT undefined

Just from that message, it appears that RCT_METRO_PORT is undefined and causing the build to fail while using the command line to run the app on iOS on my device.

I have googled this error and nothing has come up to this point. Any ideas?

Environment

Environment:
  OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.3
  Node: 8.9.3
  Yarn: Not Found
  npm: 5.7.1
  Watchman: 4.9.0
  Xcode: Xcode 9.2 Build version 9C40b
  Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4443003

Packages: (wanted => installed)
  react: 16.3.0-alpha.1 => 16.3.0-alpha.1
  react-native: 0.54.2 => 0.54.2

Steps to Reproduce

You can clone my repository and try out the command react-native run-ios --device.

Expected Behavior

I expected that it would run on my device.

Actual Behavior

Build fails with an error described above.

[jaygould]

Just installed 0.55.0 and it’s still happening, can anyone else confirm?

[b45ch1]

I can confirm that react-native run-ios --device does not work on react-native version 0.54.2 As workaround, this works for me: ios-deploy -c to get the udid of my phone and then use react-native run-ios --udid e0452************************************ to compile and deploy the project to the phone.

To fix the issue, I believe one has to adapt the function runOnDevice(…) in file node_modules/react-native/local-cli/runIOS/runIOS.js and make it consistent with runOnDeviceByUdid(...) and runOnSimulator(...).