[qazxcvbnm]

FYI I've made a patchset that pretty much allows me to actually use the EAS --local builds offline and without an EAS account, so it's in fact possible, even though they, for obvious reasons (e.g. https://github.com/expo/eas-cli/issues/1606), don't encourage it.

[hultner]

Would you mind sharing this? I’ve only used expo for experimental non-production apps so far but it works be great to be able to do this if ever needed. Reading this thread makes me a bit more hesitant about using expo.

[qazxcvbnm]

Sure! I've uploaded the relevant patches here https://gist.github.com/irisjae/08f55a52f7e4bcb81613061fc217...

My full build process is somewhat more complicated to keep my $HOME clean and remove other impurities, but just these patches should be enough to enable offline building.

[jameside]

EAS CLI is designed for EAS, the hosted services. It is intended to use your EAS account, which I suspect is why the PR wasn't accepted.

Expo CLI is for entirely local builds. Run "npx expo prebuild:{android,ios}" to generate your Android Studio and Xcode projects, and build them with the IDEs or their respective CLI tools directly.