Should you use Expo for React Native in 2023? 🤔 React Native CLI vs Expo

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In this video, we take a look at whether Expo is the best option for developing React Native apps in 2023. We discuss the pros and cons of using Expo, and its current state of development.
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00:00 Expo vs React Native CLI on the surface
01:51 What is Expo?
03:09 Limitations of Expo
06:32 Expo Managed vs Expo Bare Workflow
07:58 Additional Benefits of Expo
09:58 Should you use Expo for React Native?
11:14 Another way to Native Apps with React
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@grimm_gen 8 месяцев назад

currently building with Expo and I like it!

@DesignDebtClub 10 месяцев назад

This should be the video that appears when anyone googles this subject. You covered so much ground efficiently and clearly. Thank you.

@galaxies_dev 10 месяцев назад

Wow thank you so much 🙌

@doriancheval2831 3 месяца назад

Haha it was

@arun553 4 месяца назад

Thank you for the video, I really appreciate it

@galaxies_dev 4 месяца назад

Glad it was helpful!

@timilehinoladapo3754 Месяц назад

Thank you for this simon

@raulcalderon758 Месяц назад

searched for jobs "react native expo," found NONE

@samuelscheit Год назад

Nice summary, I personally use the react-native bare workflow, because there are much more libraries available. Regarding capacitorjs/cordova I tried a few years ago and quite enjoyed it, but the performance and UX of a bundled web app is significantly worse than (react) native apps. Especially navigation gestures and animations.

@galaxies_dev Год назад

Thanks Samuel, tried my best to compile all information into this one! I think Capacitor has grown a lot over the last years, so your experience from some years ago might be totally different today - at least that's what most report. But if you still see the differences, I'd love to see an example of that with Capacitor/RN!

@duke8925 10 месяцев назад

thanks for the breakdown

@galaxies_dev 10 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful!

@ychinamale 11 месяцев назад

I'd say that if you are new to React Native, ALWAYS start with the React Native CLI or Expo bare workflow. It isn't as difficult or as time-consuming as people make it out to be. Expo is great but as a React Native developer you don't want your first encounter with the bare workflow to be when you're forced to eject from Expo. That's always my advice to anyone new to React Native. More experienced devs can make that call based on the project requirements. Besides, some parts of Expo can be used by a React Native CLI app, so you don't always have to go all in with Expo.

@galaxies_dev 10 месяцев назад

You don't use "eject" with Expo anymore, only prebuild. And the experience of that (if you have to use it) is completely different than what eject used to be.

@QuickTuts 7 месяцев назад

It is completely different now.

@JG-mz7hg 26 дней назад

@@QuickTuts But it's still additional level of abstraction. If anything goes wrong, good luck if you are new to the whole React Native world. If you can, start from the bottom and go up.

@Nellak2011 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info. Subscribed. I needed to know more about Expo because I am attempting to do React Native with ClojureScript and there is almost no resources available for that topic. The only information I had gotten about Expo was that it was over complicated and you had to "Eject", however, despite being written in 2021, it is already outdated it seems.

@galaxies_dev 7 месяцев назад

Yeah "eject" is a thing of the past!

@anatutech 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for that last tip on Capacitor

@galaxies_dev 8 месяцев назад

No problem 👍

@roedolfstephannus7188 7 месяцев назад

Hi I want to know, if you can tell me ,where the notes is for every course to do the exercises. Please if you don't mind.

@Itanda 11 месяцев назад

the expo testing app on playstore keeps crushing, how do i fix that

@mytvhome7394 10 месяцев назад

Joe do you compare with Ionic, un 2023? Do you'd use Expo ?

@AliciaSykes Год назад

What about performance, security, privacy, legal/licensing, scaling up, privacy/compliance, speed, maintenance, etc? For larger projects, those are the type of things which are more important to many, compared to ease of the dev env setup.

@galaxies_dev Год назад

I am not part of Expo so I can't speak for their privacy, but I assume you should then only do local builds and not use EAS if you fear problems. However, for enterprise questions you should reach out to their support!

@aurielklasovsky1435 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for the question, Unbelievable that it was not mentioned. Expo go costs money if you are: updating your app, work with a team (it's a big one), perform more then x builds a month, etc. There probably is a case when you could use it for free but you will then pay for scale.

@bloggerklik 7 месяцев назад

I am developing with CLI. Have you moved on to Expo? If so, I would like to know your experiences and answers to your questions.

@aurielklasovsky1435 7 месяцев назад

@@bloggerklik I actually just started with react a month ago because I'm a full stack web developer and though it would be the fastest way to release some mobile apps. I am using expo because my goal is speed, but I honestly don't know how anything else works.

@yona.symphonize1764 17 дней назад

I built my project using react-native cli so, my question is "Can I use expo-camera and push-notifications" into my react-native cli project. Thank you!

@BageStudios 23 дня назад

How about pricing? My app has 50k MAU so update fee etc. will most likely be expensive?

@MarlonEnglemam 10 месяцев назад

expo is amazing but if you need an app that handles, for instance, video calls, be careful, had a real hard time because of that a few months ago

@tootyrnt5533 10 месяцев назад

Can you help explain the issues you faced?

@tyaho83 9 месяцев назад

Nous aimerions en savoir plus :p Peux tu nous décrire les problèmes que tu as rencontrés ? et leur solutions (je veux aussi des des salons video)

@devsolutions-qk1bg 9 месяцев назад

I am going to build one please explain issues

@Imraann0 3 месяца назад

Even with webrtc?

@reactnative4 Год назад

Awesome

@OmegaForceCommando Год назад

Hi Simon, I wanted to say, thank you for making this video! This is the first video on your channel I've seen (just subbed!) and I was hoping you could help answer this question for me: I've always used Windows my entire life, and I only own windows machines. I've NEVER liked Mac OSX, and I've always found it INFURIATING to use and I've sworn up and down I'd never own one. However, back in 2020-2021 I was looking into react native trying to develop an app and it seemed quite frankly impossible to use Windows for it and that I had to get a Mac. Here in May 2023, what is the process like for coding using Expo on React Native with windows? Is it possible? If I didn't want to get a Mac but rather dual boot with Linux on my windows machine, how does Linux compare with OSX? If I can do it on windows that would be great (I'm using Windows 10, but with Windows 11 being able to run android apps does that change anything?). Thank you again Simon for your videos and your time!

@galaxies_dev Год назад

Glad you liked the video and thanks for subscribing! So I haven't used Linux and I am actually the opposite, as I did not have a Windows machine for years :D But you should have no problem developing RN apps on Windows in general as you can use Android Studio (or simply Expo) and run the app with Expo Go - same btw for iOS devices! However, you can't create a prebuild with Expo for iOS on Windows, nor could you actually build an iOS app with Xcode from Windows, and I don't think it works from Linux either. In my opinion, get a cheap Mac Mini if you are serious about building apps and want the best tools for iOS as well. EAS is great, but in my opinion there are always cases where you need faster, local solutions for testing/debugging that you lack with Windows. Hope this helps :)

@smotrimoivideo 10 месяцев назад

Hi! I’m building my first serious app. it’s an audioguide aggregator. one of the screens will feature a map with markers. i was planning to use react-native-maps for that, but it turned out the app needs a fully functional web version. and expo’s MapView doesn’t support that. any recommendations on what library i should use to make eveyrthing work with Expo?

@galaxies_dev 10 месяцев назад

Don't have a recommendation right now but I'll look into it and see if there's a solution!

@joaopaulo9939 10 месяцев назад

you already tried expo-dev-client with native maps lib ?

@louddude 10 месяцев назад

so I tried expo with their tutorial, it started falling apart quite quickly, I made it to the final step where they do screenshot but it didn't work on iOS and when I was trying to fix it I got all kind of issues with versions mismatching everywhere. from build erroring because of global expo-cli installed and at the same time requiring it, typescript errors, reanimate errors on ios only etc. quite weird experience actually

@destroreact5706 9 месяцев назад

Same issue. The photo stuff also didn't work on IOS. Took a lot of time to solve that

@beodan9219 5 месяцев назад

Hi all.I am new react native developer.Anyone can give exp in which module available for Bare React Native and not available for Expo.Thanks

@ucheiam Год назад

I really would recommend starting with the bare workflow! I really wish someone had told me that. Ripping out expo is not simple and I had to create a totally new app, and walk along its code side by side to correctly change my app to work without expo You’re a dev, it’s not going to be nearly as complicated as you think to use the RN bare workflow.

@galaxies_dev Год назад

I don't think removing Expo is that hard anymore - the experience is not like eject in the past. Plus, you can actually simply use the prebuild now!

@AliciaSykes Год назад

@@galaxies_dev Is a prebuild project totally free of all expo dependencies? Is it as neat and performant as a project built from scratch or with the RN CLI tool?

@Yarkanlaki Год назад

you dint need to recreate totally app while expo can run bare react native project

@anime_editz7777 4 месяца назад

You can simply just use a development build instead, works fine and not stressful

@douglasmaueski Год назад

Hello everything is fine? In a project with EXPO, once finished, how to prepare to generate an APK and an IPA to install only on the local/physical cell phone?

@galaxies_dev Год назад

You can either use "eas build --local" to run a local EAS build or "expo prebuild" to create the native platform folders and create your file through Xcode/Android Studio!

@douglasmaueski Год назад

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏽👍🏽

@rede_neural Год назад

It seems like changes I made in styles.xml are completely ignored by expo. This makes it unusable to me, since I can't disable the force dark mode feature of xiaomi devices, which changes all colors of my app. I can't even make a white button, and animating colors have a completely weird effect, because it changes the color abruptly after a certain threshold

@galaxies_dev Год назад

I have to look more into that issue, did anyone else experience it as well?

@milon27 Год назад

Xiaomi mui is the main issue here.

@lubna6517 7 месяцев назад

Hi Simon, thanks for the video, I’m building a fitness app which has integration with health apps/smart devices, Google calendar, push notifications also video and camera integration in future, which method do you think is best for this use case. Any inputs will be really helpful.

@skyzane2735 2 месяца назад

Issue. I was following Expo tutorial under Learn section. I came across the Gesture.Tap, and the Expo Go app suddenly closes without any error logs. But the gesture works well on android/ios SIMULATORS and web. But not on the Expo Go App. Anyone encounter this same issue? How to resolve it

@galaxies_dev 2 месяца назад

Hmm maybe they have their own gesture handling for the app. I'm a big fan of prebuild anyway!

@skyzane2735 2 месяца назад

@@galaxies_dev I found out the issue. When you first open the app and allowed permissions, it would work. But in your device and when you manually change the settings back to disallow permissions, then either your ProjApp and/or Expo app won’t ask the same permissions again, and it would just suddenly close when trying to access those. The workaround solution to resolve this is we have to manually turn off all permissions again in Expo, basically from zero and rescanning the QR code again. So it will ask permissions for the first time again.

@samymohsen505 10 месяцев назад

Hi Simon, I was wondering about the new architecture. Does Expo support the new architecture of RN. I have looked here and there but I am not sure 100%.

@jfbaro2 10 месяцев назад

It does. New versions of Expo are always released with the latest stable RN,

@williamprada9805 6 месяцев назад

As long as I know, it doesn't because I read somewhere they do not want to write C++ code to make most of their components compatible with the new renderer. And if you go and read RN Docs, they say that expo does not support the new architecture. But I believe eventually they will have to catch up.

@user-xs1xw1gu3u 6 месяцев назад

I'm using Expo and I don't know why it doesn't support hot reloading when I update a small changes in code it is completely reloading from welcome screen. What is the solution Thanks

@galaxies_dev 6 месяцев назад

Maybe you have some routing issues or logic that triggers it? For me it's working just fine!

@user-xs1xw1gu3u 6 месяцев назад

@@galaxies_dev Ok thanks I'll try another project for this issue and consider your solution 😀😀

@owenwexler7214 Год назад

I’m assuming the circa 2021 bug for react native cli where a newly scaffolded project vomits 60 pages of error messages instead of starting has been fixed?

@galaxies_dev Год назад

I definitely don't see such an error!

@alexandrupruteanu6532 Год назад

you forgot to mention one thing, adapting and maintaining an application made with expo has become a headache,because of the very stupid and untested changes.

@Imraann0 3 месяца назад

X,y,z starts breaking when you update sdk

@meetsanwadkar 9 месяцев назад

I have created an app in expo , it is a normal app which fetches info from my backend (nodejs express js) which is hosted in firebase, app works fine when tried in expo go but the data didn't get fetched in apk build from expo , as i didn't have Console i just build an apk file and tried on my android phone other ways app works fine, can anyone suggest where is the issue and best way to debug?

@galaxies_dev 8 месяцев назад

Are you using a SSL connection to your backend? Most likely it's some problem with the URL, but you should be able to create a local APK for debugging as well and test again with console logs through remote debugging!

@LostBoyLA 5 месяцев назад

Hello, I've been trying to take expo seriously lately. I have a problem with packages that I own with it. For example, while in development I try to symlink my package in the node_modules folder. When I do this the module can never be found. It only works when it's not symlinked. I tried things like explicitly defining it in my metro config with no luck. Has anyone found a solution for this?

@galaxies_dev 4 месяца назад

Maybe publish the NPM packages and use those packages?

@rbasket8 9 месяцев назад

I am a total newbie into programming, but I am building an app, and started with expo but it started to give me random error with the firebase storage library, so I changed to bare react native project, and that shit has been nightmarish, errors everywhere, now stuck in a error with firebase app (not even the storage, just the firebase base). It crashes and I dont any fucking idea why it is happening, and I tried almost everything in the web, and even asked chat GPT lol Might swich to expo again because probably my problem there with storage will be easier to solve.

@galaxies_dev 9 месяцев назад

The problem was most likely that Firebase SDK is at v10 now, and most content was about 9 or below. For example, you don't need to import a special persistence package for React Native anymore!

@rbasket8 9 месяцев назад

@@galaxies_dev wow thanks for answering. But I switched to Supabase now, slowly I am building my app haha. And yes, I went back to Expo. Cheers. More Supabase content would be great btw.

@emenikedaniel 7 месяцев назад

Have you tried flutter? I am a nextjs web dev. Looking to pick up mobile application development. I have heard good things about flutter but will love your perspective on the discuss. Whats your take on it? Is it truly performant and better than RN?

@galaxies_dev 7 месяцев назад

I have a full video comparing them here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lYfgGgJgHB0.htmlsi=SAt-nGNHdaLLgiEp&t=298

@emenikedaniel 7 месяцев назад

@@galaxies_dev Thank you so much .. Going to have a look. I also decided to go with flutter because Dart concepts are similar to JavaScript . I discovered arrow functions and a lot of goodies from es6 here. It is also very simple. Simpler than GoLang, i must confess. I will be betting on flutter. Thanks a lot

@mytvhome7394 10 месяцев назад

Os It posible use Expo and Netxjs on one project for share Code?

@galaxies_dev 10 месяцев назад

You can share parts, but you would have like 2 projects next to each other in one repo I guess!

@jfedererj 8 месяцев назад

This information is a bit of out date now (and only 6 months old!) as it doesn't mention Expo Dev Clients which solve loads of the testing problems for apps needing third party native libraries.

@galaxies_dev 8 месяцев назад

Yeah I kinda felt like dev client and prebuild are the same, in that they give you the whole freedom of development. But thanks for your addition!

@TheMarkDrake 9 месяцев назад

Is Expo not a superset of React Native? Certainly anything you can do in React Native, you can do if you choose to run with Expo?

@galaxies_dev 9 месяцев назад

Expo is it's own company and thing, but in your Expo projects you still have standard react native dependencies!

@DevlogBill 9 месяцев назад

Hi Simon, if you don't know React but want to learn React Native. Am I required to learn React first? Or Can I simple jump into React Native? I just want to make cross platform mobile apps with React Native, thanks Simon.

@truthiz2805 9 месяцев назад

You can jump into react native directly, they are essentially the same. Work with functional components and do not go into class component for an easier approach that is also very similar to react.

@DevlogBill 9 месяцев назад

@@truthiz2805 Thanks truthiz, I asked because when I went on Udemy or watched a RU-vidr explain the requirement is React before React Native. I had a feeling there was more than one way to learn something. I did some reading online for some requirements with React. I am assuming you should learn all the hooks? Hooks like the useState, useEffect? Are there other hooks I should consider if I am making a basic crud app? First project will be a simple todo mobile app. Thanks for sharing truthiz.

@galaxies_dev 9 месяцев назад

Yes you can! I know many how simply jumped straight into RN, so don't listen to gatekeepers and just get started and learn React as required on the go :)

@vinitjain7 9 месяцев назад

I made my project using expo, and its been 2 weeks and I am still not able to create apk, My apk always crashes don't know wtf is the problem.

@galaxies_dev 9 месяцев назад

Did you try to use EAS?

@vinitjain7 9 месяцев назад

@@galaxies_dev yeah, i had made a childish mistake, I name my app folder as src. when I changed it started working

@skaramicke 6 месяцев назад

Linking in metro in 2023 makes it feel like you made this video in 2021

@deimne970 Год назад

Next video: expo or ionic/capacitor, what's best? ;-)

@Flash136 Год назад

Pretty sure there is a video on this already. RN vs Ionic/Capacitor vs Flutter

@galaxies_dev Год назад

Yes there is a bigger comparison of those and Flutter here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--tTVYqyNZas.html

@heavenboycool Год назад

CLi is suck. All of my updated projects keep crashing on android 12+. I start migrate them to expo.

@XxxclusiveReviews 11 месяцев назад

Should I use expo go instead of Expo cli

@vinitjain7 8 месяцев назад

hey please make a video on expo file system, I want to learn to store profile pictures in local storage so that each time app is opened, I don't need to make API calls.

@galaxies_dev 7 месяцев назад

Sounds like a plan!

@vinitjain7 7 месяцев назад

thank u, it will be great help, coz I have created a a library of workouts, and I don't want my users to make so many API calls on my s3, so I will store all images in local storage.@@galaxies_dev

@praveenvinopv9929 8 месяцев назад

As a Professional React Native developer with experience in lot of native module and custom native functionality, I would suggest every to go with React native cli approach, Yes I agree some libraries are outdated for bare react native project but then you can still use expo module inside your React native cli project with this you can have best of both world ✨

@stickshift583 7 месяцев назад

Hi, Since you are experienced, I want to consult you on something. I may be wondering why I am getting the error "RNGestureHandlerRootView" was not found in the UIManager even though I installed the gesture handler package. React native cli version 0.72.5

@praveenvinopv9929 7 месяцев назад

@@stickshift583 Try cleaning the cache and rebuild the application. Since it is a native view it requires full restart after installing the package from npm.

@kenthankgod2619 7 месяцев назад

@@praveenvinopv9929hey mate, im nee to reactNative tho I have experience with reactjs I'm thinking RN might be a different beats, even tho its same syntax with Reactjs, how do you suggest i go about things, do you suggest i start with expo or bare bones react-native cli

@glaze4629 7 месяцев назад

@@kenthankgod2619For a first approach I'd suggest to go with expo it already supports a lot of libraries out the box, so you can do a lot of stuff with it as you learn, the moment you need something expo does not provide you can look up for "expo custom development clients", if you plan on keep on learning you must for sure try the cli approach, I started with the cli approach and it's really not that difficult, all you need to know is how to read the docs of the desired library in search for "linking" steps.

@beodan9219 5 месяцев назад

Hi all.I am new react native developer.Anyone can give exp in which module available for Bare React Native and not available for Expo.Thanks

@supernova82 Месяц назад

The 95 % of people, who are saying go with Expo, were saying it because of simplicity to use or because it gives everything we need for app development? What was the experience level of those 95% with the app development and what kind of apps have they built?

@galaxies_dev Месяц назад

Among the 95% are some of the biggest agencies building React Native apps, so I think they kinda know what they do and why they picked it!

@raulcalderon758 Месяц назад

@@galaxies_dev searched for jobs "react native expo," found NONE. ziprecruiter

@raulcalderon758 Месяц назад

searched for jobs "react native expo," found NONE.

@supernova82 Месяц назад

@@galaxies_dev Well, I was just asking, not doubting. The number 95% doesn’t mean much without it without the proper context. It also doesn’t matter how big the agency. All these big companies have many projects. Unless, we know for what kind of app they are using Expo, it is not very useful. Anyway, I found one of your video where you mentioned some of the famous apps using Expo.

@muhammadsami9387 6 месяцев назад

I usually watch these kinda videos after learning that specific thing. So, that I can guide others if this guy is lying or not😆

@galaxies_dev 6 месяцев назад

True, you should always fact check my stuff as well!

@sarunas8002 8 месяцев назад

Expo is easy. except for basic stuff like Google Auth, which is confusing. wtf...

@thisweekinreact Год назад

Of course you shouls

@galaxies_dev Год назад

This is the way

@reactnative4 Год назад

What? Expo or CLI?

@thecoolnewsguy Год назад

@@reactnative4 He was answering the question (title of the video) ;)

@allexnek 9 месяцев назад

There’s still lot of bugs

@galaxies_dev 9 месяцев назад

In Expo?

@raulcalderon758 Месяц назад

i searched for jobs "react native expo," found NONE.

@baumeister2880 Год назад

So i cant Use Recht native packages with Expo?

@galaxies_dev Год назад

What kind of RN package? Normally you can.

@baumeister2880 Год назад

@@galaxies_dev react-native-midi e.g.

@VEOdev 10 месяцев назад

I do use them all the time with expo without problems

@galaxies_dev 10 месяцев назад

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@swagathshetty 6 месяцев назад

In my previous job i was working as a software developer I was suddenly asked to build a mobile app from scratch and barely had 2 days to learn mobile development. I chose to go with expo since it was the easiest to get started and I think I made the right decison as I was able to focus more time writing the code than wasting my time on setup But Eventually there was a requirement where I had to install a native package which was not supported by expo, so ejected out and converted it into a cli app. start with expo but if you feel you need more control eject out of it

@galaxies_dev 6 месяцев назад

Eject doesn't exist anymore in 2023. There is prebuild, and it's really easy to use!