Expo

Start a project without Xcode/Android Studio

Quickly deploy changes to your phone over ngrok, hot reloading

Expo SDK gives ez access to underlying native APIS

Limitations => can always eject though

Managed workflow has only JS and Expo does rest

Bare workflow give full control over native project with Expo SDK, ejection to regular react native project

Setup

npm install -g expo-cli

Then run the following commands to create a new React Native project called "AwesomeProject":

expo init AwesomeProject

cd AwesomeProject
npm start

Running

  1. Download Expo app on your phone and run project

  2. Scan QR code on phone and make sure you are connected on the same Wifi

Change to tunnel if needed

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