Trying to debug with react native, following documentation

[fvila]

I’m on Windows 10, using expo 47.0.6, I’m trying to debug. I use VsCode and I’m aiming for android to start off.

I freshly created a project with expo’s create-expo-app utility…

I read in Debugging - Expo Documentation

Open the project in Android Studio: open -a /Applications/Android\ Studio.app ./android

I copy-pasted the command and get the message:
'open' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I searched and found a suggestion that open should be replaced with start if using npm. I tried replacing open with start:
start -a /Applications/Android\ Studio.app ./android

I got the response:
The system cannot find the file -a.

I removed the -a, got the answer:
Invalid switch - "/Applications".

Here’s an extract of the package.json file:

  "dependencies": {
    "expo": "~47.0.6",
    "expo-status-bar": "~1.4.2",
    "react": "18.1.0",
    "react-native": "0.70.5",
    "expo-splash-screen": "~0.17.5"
  },

[fvila]

Also tried with command

expo init my-project
cd my-project
expo start

Also attempted to add varying debug configurations to launch.json

Breakpoints remain unbound.