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Studying React Native Expo in depth this week and will be casting around it to help with my learning and understanding

Why?
React Native Expo allows you to code once, for Web, Android and iOS. Traditionally, this would require 3 different codebases and deployments.

I've worked recently with a React Native project for nearly 3 years, without Expo and the experience was mixed.

Overall it was good, not as bad as some devs think it is. We were lucky to have a good CI/CD and DevOps setup  

What wasn't so great was the React Native upgrades

https://docs.expo.dev/tutorial/create-your-first-app/

Quick update on React Native with Expo.

The good 😇
- Three platforms. One codebase
- Very dev friendly CLI. You can easily run an emulator (Android), simulator (iOS) and web. No need of Xcode or Android Studio
- EAS can do the heavy lifting for you for deployments 

The not so good 😈
- Heavy size for a simple "Hello World" app
- Some packages are not available for the 3 platforms and require special handling and/or installing dependencies.
- If you require native packages, you’ll have to eject to a bare workflow. 

This means you have to manually manage the configuration of your app. While this gives you more control and flexibility, it also adds extra responsibility.

Building Moxito (iOS) 🌱 /moxito | TOTH @tipothehat ~ Developer (iOS, widgets), parent, musician 🎹 | https://linktr.ee/leovido

This week I'm focused on Expo. Will definitely write more :)

Thanks!