App developers of FC, do you prefer Expo or React Native? 

Looking to build a simple consumer social app with not many (if any) native iOS integrations.

Background: Haven’t built iOS apps since using Objective-C ~7 years ago. Want to avoid ramp up time of learning Swift.

building @alfaca @offmarket @perl | alum South Park Commons | previously cofounder SBLY.com, eng at Stripe | peter-kim.com

do you mean writing RN raw vs writing RN with expo? 

strongly recommend the latter cc @nickcherry who may also have thoughts

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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Totally agree. Once upon a time (2-3 years ago?) it was common knowledge to use vanilla RN for any non-toy app, as you would eventually need to eject from Expo in order to install custom native dependencies.

Nowadays, you can do pretty much anything with an Expo app that you can with a vanilla RN app, but can opt into additional Expo services like OTA updates, push notifications, automated builds/submissions, etc.

Arguably, though, Expo's upgrade wizard negates the downside of an extra dependency. I haven't upgraded a vanilla RN app in a minute, so hard to say how much the experience differs.

Downsides of Expo that come to mind are that you'll always be a little behind the latest RN version (tho Expo team is generally very good about incorporating ASAP) and that the Expo SDK is one more set of dependencies you'll have to worry about when upgrading (which is notoriously painful in RN)