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by k4rli 605 days ago
Been working on one RN project Expo-free since 0.6x. It's really not needed at all, neither is it complicated to set up without Expo.

I've only used Expo during hackathons and university to quickly get something running, but for actual production apps it's should be avoided imo.
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stuckinaloop 605 days ago
that's an interesting perspective, curious to what your reasons are for avoiding expo in production?
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diggan 605 days ago
Last time I played around with React Native was probably around when it first launched, there was no Expo then, and I haven't used React Native since so I don't even know what Expo is.

But another commentator wrote "yet another SaaS with questionable payment tiers" about Expo (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41937886) which makes me already not want to use it if I ever touch React Native again. Not sure why a SaaS would be involved at all in this process.

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tcoff91 604 days ago
You don't have to use Expo's SaaS to use Expo. Expo framework is 100% FOSS. However Expo Application Services is a really great SaaS product for doing things like cloud builds and Over-The-Air updates.

The anti expo sentiment is almost all based on the old days where you had to eject to use native dependencies. Expo is amazing now.

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