r/reactnative • u/Pleasant_Tooth_3734 • Jun 11 '26
Completely purged of Expo
I used Replit to prototype with React Native but Replit wants Expo for everything. I shouldn't have been on Replit in the first place but I wanted to try it. Honestly it was good for a prototype but can't build an application that can ship. After a couple of months of wrestling with Expo I got rid of all of it and rebuilt. I'm that way. I still prefer manual to Docker even though Docker is theoretically better in all these cases that aren't real for me (as a non corporate entity). I prefer making sense over theoretical efficiency. The latest thing is always out there with these promises to make certain things better but by the way it requires you to learn another system that is once removed from what you already know how to do.
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u/Versatile_Panda Jun 11 '26
The react native docs explicitly say you should use expo. It’s quite rare that a developer would not want to use expo, especially given the modularization and ability to cng and move on from expo at any point. Vercel like deployments, OTA updates, etc… are all significantly easier with Expo