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by jesseruder 3558 days ago
Hey Joe. I work on Exponent.

When you're developing you can use Exponent's apps from the App Store/Play Store, so you can get started immediately and let other people test your app easily. Once you're ready to put your app in the stores you start a build using our CLI and we build it on our servers (see https://docs.getexponent.com/versions/latest/guides/building...). We want to make it easy for people on Windows and Linux to build apps so don't require you to use Xcode or Android Studio. If you don't want the builds to happen on our servers our clients are open source so you can do it yourself if you want (https://github.com/exponentjs/exponent).
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geoka9 3558 days ago
Thank you so much for your work!

> We want to make it easy for people on Windows and Linux to build apps

Is there a Linux version of XDE? I can't seem to find it.

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jesseruder 3558 days ago
We don't have a binary for Linux yet (keep meaning to do it, want to get to it soon) but building from source works! https://github.com/exponentjs/xde#build-from-source
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geoka9 3558 days ago
That's even better. Thanks again!
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boxctim 3556 days ago
It looks really great! Is it possible to take down apps from the Exponent servers once I've published on the App stores or do I have to keep all my code and resources public?

(I saw mentioned on the blog you work on: "making it easier to deploy your app to any server and not depend on ours" as well which will be super cool)

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