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Peter Kim
@peter
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.
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Peter Kim
@peter
appreciate all the replies! FC is awesome :)
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Varun Srinivasan
@v
do you mean writing RN raw vs writing RN with expo? strongly recommend the latter cc @nickcherry who may also have thoughts
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ace
@ace
420 $DEGEN 🌿
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@degencast.eth
if the app is not extremely... say for fc client, rn is totally fine for the job
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@degencast.eth
if you like react, you will like rn. I am big fan of rn back then after having to build both ios android codebase..
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dylan
@dylsteck.eth
Expo is great But if you wanted to just go iOS native, SwiftUI is so smooth
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David Furlong
@df
Expo react native
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pugson
@pugson
always expo
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andrew
@boop
I’m team Expo, although swift is way less clunky than it used to be
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Adam
@adamhurwitz
It's worth exploring Kotlin Compose Multiplatform. The JetBrains team invented Kotlin and has great native performance on Android, desktop, and web, with iOS in development. https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-mpp/
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chen
@cwkang
In my experience (as a non mobile dev that sometimes make small mobile apps) expo is often the friendlier method and is usually sufficient for most purpose.
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Jake Casey
@jakeacasey
expo makes building apps dumb easy especially reasonably simple ones.
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san
@san
Expo has improved a lot in recent times You can build native modules easily, & lots of extra features you’d need have expo libraries, which are well written compared to others. I’ve built a decently heavy consumer social with lots of native code with pure RN in 2021 but if I have to start it now, it’ll be with
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Yakov K.
@purplenoodlesoop
Flutter :)
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lewi
@lewi
Expos tooling, testing & deploy flows are super nice. Just make doubly sure you don’t need any custom integrations because ejecting halfway through is hella annoying.
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Daniel Miller
@dandlezzz
Don’t be afraid of Swift. SwiftUI has really changed the ramp up time. It’s easier than building react native right now. I have a experience with both. Give it a shot.
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Alexander
@aer0xander
Expo, look up Tamagui if you want a cool UI framework
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