Reposted by Evan Bacon 🥓Taz Singh @tazs.ing · 03/02/2025It's absolutely incredible how good @expo.dev is these days I set up a new Expo Router shell and built about 80% of an entire super slick app in 1 day yesterday 😮 It works flawlessly on Web, iOS, and Android 👏 Before, this would've taken so much longer, or be far less capable in the same time 💅 3402
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Built a quick Expo website to search through expo/vector-icons 🚀 ◆ Framework — Expo Router ◆ Hosting — eas deploy 💕 ◆ UI — shadcn ◆ Virtual list — tanstack/react-virtual Try it here icons.expo.app 3725
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Just built my first App Clip in Expo Router! ◆ Instantly launch on iOS w/o downloading ◆ Deep link to every screen automatically ◆ Convert users in-app w/o ever going to the App Store A new era for mobile web—notifications, Live Activities, haptics, etc Try now appclip.apple.com/id?p=com.eva... 1013014
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Just moved my game pillarvalley.expo.app over to EAS Hosting 🚀 Re-deploying on iOS with the new universal links.pillarvalley.expo.app 5501
Reposted by Evan Bacon 🥓hassankhan @hassankhan.me · 10/12/2024Day 10: Expo Config Plugins In my opinion, possibly the single greatest thing in the #ReactNative ecosystem, even better than New Architecture. Config plugins fix SO much pain, and go hand-in-hand with the prebuild process, together enabling what's called Continuous Native Generation (or CNG) 2333
Reposted by Evan Bacon 🥓dan @danabra.mov · 08/11/2024the amount of pure value expo has created must be astronomical. i don’t think react native would be viable for smaller companies without it. and it’s free. wild 614013
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 31/10/2024🚀 Migrated my React website evanbacon.dev to a native app with Expo DOM components, on a stream. You can try it today on iOS! testflight.apple.com/join/Mnx4HDsf And watch the stream here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLlu...evanbacon.devEvan BaconArtist and Software Developer. Currently reimagining mobile software with Expo. 3472
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 31/10/2024I was talking about “use dom”. It’s really good. docs.expo.dev/guides/dom-c...docs.expo.devUsing React DOM in Expo native appsLearn about rendering React DOM elements in Expo native apps. 1573
Reposted by Evan Bacon 🥓Samuel @samuel.fm · 05/10/2024you meet @bacon.bsky.social one time and all of a sudden all your buttons become squishy and native-feeling 1133619
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 01/08/2024Expo 52 will make it clear how web developers can incrementally build high-powered native apps with their existing React skills 1403
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 05/01/2024🚀 Ever wonder how many apps use Expo × React Native? Over the last year I've collected a list of over +𝟭,𝟱𝟬𝟬 top iOS apps (including Bluesky) using Expo OSS in the App Store! 🔗 Today I'm sharing the list! evanbacon.dev/blog/expo-2024evanbacon.devWho's using Expo in 2024A list of popular iOS apps using Expo open source libraries in 2024 0224
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 19/09/2023When people compare React Native with Flutter, they often say that Flutter is better for graphics-based apps. However, the #1 graphics app in the App Store is built with React Native. Anything's possible with a truly native framework! 1181
Reposted by Evan Bacon 🥓Charlie Cheever @ccheever.com · 13/09/2023Take a look at this RFC from @bacon.bsky.social if you care about API Routes in your apps. Please share feedback if you have any. blog.expo.dev/rfc-api-rout...blog.expo.devRFC: API RoutesBringing server-side development to React Native with Expo API Routes 0114
Reposted by Evan Bacon 🥓Charlie Cheever @ccheever.com · 01/09/2023@pfrazee.com @danabra.mov We're working a lot on Expo web and trying to make Expo one of the best ways to make a website -- on par w Remix and Next, etc. If there's anything you think is missing or wish were diff, let us know. @bacon.bsky.social is leading this effort. 2101
Reposted by Evan Bacon 🥓P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 15/05/2023alright folks, the app code is now public github.com/bluesky-social/social-app 991087396
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 16/05/2023Writing this from a branch of the Bluesky app that uses Expo Router 3170
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 28/04/2023With Expo, even a quick hack can get you a performant app that runs natively on 99% of mobile devices, and web—at scale… 1193
Reposted by Evan Bacon 🥓Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social · 24/04/2023It'd be fun to do a case study of this Expo app sometime. 081
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 24/04/2023Universal apps don't have to be slow! Expo apps are highly performant ↓ 2110
Evan Bacon 🥓 @bacon.bsky.social · 23/04/2023@lydiahallie.bsky.social @ccheever.bsky.social and I are at Coachella today! Come find us and talk about universal development! 0121