Easy React Native with Expo

Achmad Fatoni
SurabayaDev
Published in
2 min readMay 26, 2017

Expo formerly Exponent is open source project that let’s developer to build ios and android applications using react native.

Writing Expo is like writing usual React native app, except you don’t need to open Android studio and Xcode to run the app.

How to start develop app with Expo?

  1. You need to download and install Expo in your computer, you can get it here

2. Launch your Expo XDE, choose Project → New Project then you will asked template and name that you wanna use for your app. Expo will download source code for your project.

3. After downloading project source code, you can open the project with your favorite IDE (Sublime, Atom, etc).

4. Run application

  • How to run and test the project?
  • no need to open Xcode?
  • no need to open Android Studio?

Yes, sure. don’t need to open Android studio and Xcode.

click Send link, write down your email. Expo will send application link to your email. open link in email with your phone it will automatically Expo app on your phone if you already have it or redirect to App store (ios) and PlayStore (android) to download expo app.

Expo link in email
Expo demo project

It’s easy, isn’t it?

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