React Native Just Made A Long Overdue Change

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React Native just made a big change. They're recommending "using a framework", specifically they recommend Expo. I do too.

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S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[angelcaru]

"We put a framework in your framework so you can use more framework per framework"

[jrhager]

As a bare user for years, this is a tough pill to swallow. lol

[oliverloops.]

Expo is great and EAS is even better. But, it’s important not to be afraid of native mobile development

[lightleviathan]

xcode is so bad at this point i use swift playgrounds for development and xcode when i need to make it into a final app

[dough-pizza]

It's so weird for me to think how it's an epiphany for react and libraries alike that if you don't provide developers with anything they'll start building their own framework, like no shit! This was being touted as one of the benefits of react when it first came around saying it was light and you could exactly tailor it to your use case.


.... And now they're doing an Angular with bells and whistles

[hermann]

I just recently was tasked with updating a 5-year-old React Native app. Porting in over to Expo worked wonders, and makes it way easier to update in the future as well. As long as Expo can do what you want to do, it's the best choice, IMO.

[jounouchi]

Expo also generates web apps. Hope they dont give up on it, would like to keep using it for mobile and web projects.

[bloodandbonezzz]

0:47 started using react native back in 2016 December and never used all those things you mentioned. React native cli always came with everything I just start developing.

[owenwexler]

6:12 imagine taking a day to build your app then realizing you forgot to center a div somewhere

[avarise]

Man, coming from C kernel dev world, webdev feels so cluttered! So many things to follow, frameworks etc, meanwhile my tools are almost the same like 20 years ago...

[alexkey]

Disagree, By forcing us to use expo is the real pain. We are way less flexible, less in control and we are dependant on a company that can lock and monetize its platform any day. I will stick to cli no matter what. I'd rather configure more things than risk being locked.

[RogerKerse]

I always find myself needing functionality that is not available in Expo so not convinced yet.

[tootyrnt]

Expo has come a long way, congrats to the team!

[OxyToan]

All the first comments are all some weird bots 💀

[Hadi-gdul]

Expo's EAS is enough reason for me

[siya.abc]

Is he reading yet another article or coding an expo app? I can't with another reading episode

[danielratiu]

Comparing Vercel to FTP is not fair. There is also ssh rsync and git which can make life easy and deployment fast.

[stephenjames]

been there with the original tools and I concur.

[mishen-thakshana]

isn't it painful to prebuild the project everytime.

[donka]

Missing the days where you just put a script tag in your html and that was it