5 years of DEVeloper EXperience in React Native
summary
Five years of using React Native produces concrete lessons: early projects ship to stores but suffer slow rebuilds, brittle native linking and painful code signing; later upgrades (0.60 auto-linking), adopting Expo and EAS remove much friction. Apps reach large audiences—examples hit ~1.5M monthly active users—and debugging, onboarding and CI/CD become practical. Expect tradeoffs: faster iteration and easier credential management versus staying inside the Expo ecosystem or ejecting to handle custom native SDKs.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:55Developer experience in React Native
- 5:46Why React Native
- 6:10Early struggles in 2018
- 9:44Debugging and native issues
- 13:18Code signing and linking
- 17:29React Native 0.60 turning point
- 18:12Expo benefits
- 21:03Expo limitations by 2021
- 23:10Automated credentials with Expo CLI
- 24:18Developer experience today
- 25:49Q&A
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