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So excited to move my API Routes to expo!

Watched Theo research and talk about Bluesky yesterday while he prepped for a video. Was pretty cool to learn the history and the mission of the company.

It's way more important than just a social app. Happy to join and support it.

Love that its OSS and so easy to build locally.

Eager to hear how this goes.

"As of today, the only recommended community framework for React Native is Expo. Folks at Expo have been investing in the React Native ecosystem since the early days of React Native and as of today, we believe the developer experience offered by Expo is best in class."

There's a lot to keep in mind, and many choices to make when you're starting a new project. Here are some suggestions to help you kickstart your next Expo app.

This is great for speeding up your workflow.

Custom builds are the most convenient way to orchestrate advanced workflows before or after a build. This blog explains how and when to use custom builds.

What if you don't wanna use Legend State? What are other options you recommend for persisting state?

Learn the fundamentals of React Native development in Expo in this quick breakdown. With Expo, we can build apps for iOS, Android, and the web from a single JavaScript codebase.

That blog is from 2020. I'd love to hear more about how Shopify is building with React Native today.

You probs wanna post in the Expo discord: https://discord.com/invite/expo

As a part of SDK 50, Expo introduced the ability to build applications for Apple TV and Android TV that include Expo modules. The blog has a tutorial using the Ignite CLI.

expo-camera was getting too complex. There were just too many features that only served a few people but made the app complex.

Looks like they modernized it.

IMO fingerprint is a massive milestone for the whole RN ecosystem as the story has always been 'there's the native part that is hard to compile, the JS part that is easy to compile and swap BUT it's super hard to know for sure that they match unless you build them together which kills the easy to swap part' and now fingerprint is changing it all.

Sounds like this is the 3rd out of 4 releases for Expo Router - and the API Routes are kinda mindblowing. Gonna save so much time/frustration by just being able to make those calls.

This is a chunky release. Tons of updates and new goodies to make DX better.

I used to run the twitter handle for CockroachDB and got daily scathing mentions about our name. This blog explains a bit about the logic and origin of the audacious name: CockroachDB.