[ashark]

> - The JavaScript ecosystem is still insane. Our project has ended up with one of the most complex build processes I've worked with (and I've worked with autotools).

God is that true. The JS ecosystem as a whole is actually, no BS, crazy, and their build jenga-tower especially is insane.

With RN, though, we've only really had problems with it when using Expo. Taking that out of our stack pretty much solved our periodic whole-day-wasting build problems, and excising it and other tightly-coupled libs freed us to upgrade RN from time to time, which is nice. A++++, would aggressively remove RN-specific 3rd party libs again.

[brokenbyclouds]

I don't use react native for work, just for my own projects, but what you said about expo is resonating with me. I thought it would be a clear winner but it's much slower to do anything with it, the app is constantly crashing, etc. Feels much less productive.

[rboyd]

how long ago was this? our experience with expo has been pretty great so far.