Converting Existing React Native Projects to Expo

Question

I\'m considering building mobile apps in React Native using Expo and I noticed under FAQ that existing React Native projects can be converted to Expo.

What exactly a

Answer 1

This topic is covered in the Expo XDE readme.

However, we didn't get it working and decided to port our code into the default Expo app (Edit: after hitting a lot of issues porting our app to Expo, we decided to revert to vanilla RN).

There are at least a few required steps missing from the documentation:

• Create exp.json file

• Update React and React Native libraries to the versions required by Exponent

  "react": "16.0.0-alpha.6", "react-native": "https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-16.0.0.tar.gz",

We summarized on our blog why we gave up on Expo in its current form.