Expo in 100 Seconds

[@NormCantoral]

one of the most underrated technologies just quietly sitting on the mountain of its value

[@s1nistr433]

It's been dwarfed by flutter, flutter just performs better and allows developing desktop and web apps as well all from the same codebase with better performance, with the only con being you learn a new language that is mostly similar to typescript anyway

[@mattmmilli8287]

expo sucks but react native is great

[@gerardocalia3052]

@@mattmmilli8287are you mad? Expo is what makes react native barely usable

[@wezter96]

​@@s1nistr433React Native is a considerably better option for web in most scenarios (Yes you can build Web + Mobile + Desktop with RN as well). Flutter is great for some things on mobile but lacking native components is also a quite big con for the feel of Flutter apps.

[@rohithkumarbandari]

Expo is a really bad tool with good idea.

[@santiagowu5365]

I'm now using it for personal projects. Just amazing. Thanks for the video.

[@ExpoDevelopers]

What are you building with Expo?

[@joshua_226]

@@ExpoDevelopers I built a Police ticket paying app with Expo as a class project It was perfect, perfect Down to the last minute detail

[@ehem3274]

@@joshua_226 what about the performance if we compare it with flutter? is it faster or slower?

[@NuncNuncNuncNunc]

Does Expo use a remote build server or are all builds done locally?

[@santiagowu5365]

@@NuncNuncNuncNunc some can be done locally, but by default, they are done by Expo's servers.

[@undefined365]

Fireship is an actual good KZbinr.

[@lefermier10]

When I was new to programming, I thought his name was Firebase

[@somnullty]

​@@lefermier10lol

[@cecilselormamediku9560]

Ne tooo Lol​@@lefermier10

[@GreatTaiwan]

Aged like milk sadly these beyond 100 is gone now

[@syluz1829]

@@lefermier10 same bro

[@Syndrms]

I used Expo for my graduation project, It was honestly a godsend, everything from the dozens of packages to EAS build.

[@outstruck]

Project name?

[@turk_bleda]

Same

[@techaddictdude]

@@outstruck Rabbit R1

[@kohlod]

Expo has enhanced in the couple years prior. Before that it was really a nightmare when a package nedeed native code having to eject project but now with development builds and eas never has been easier to develop apps with expo

[@Way_Of_The_Light]

So how’s this when compared to flutter ?

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Glad you're enjoying the dev builds and EAS!

[@kohlod]

@@Way_Of_The_Light I have not use flutter yet so i cannot give an objective opinion. But flutter is awesome for sure

[@ksi9302]

I used expo in those years and really didn't enjoy it.. hope it's better now

[@rumble1925]

Even making your own expo bridge plugins isn't very difficult. The docs need to be clearer, but once you get an understanding it's pretty straight forward.

[@DevRSC]

Happy see expo getting more popular in the react native community It's such a relief to have a platform that streamlines development and makes building apps so much easier

[@rishabh1S]

Yeah bro, expo is awesome. Flutter is great but it doesn't gives such flexibility I got with Expo

[@eveningkid]

Expo is by far one of the greatest teams out there pushing for better mobile development. Big kudos to them!

[@ConernicusRex]

They're literally pushing for worse mobile development. Anyone pushing non-native development is f*cking their userbase royally.

[@elvispalace]

I miss you bro

[@r4rbit]

Expo is allowing me to create an app for my client that will soon be published to the Play Store! I knew zero React Native and now I'm here, crazy. I love the project and the community, great video as always Fireship

[@ppie8001]

I genuinely love working with expo is really changed my work style expediting the process of creating an app. I really hope the expo expands in the future to desktop and all other platforms because it would be really nice to integrate all my software into one simple code base.

[@polymations]

well, they did expand to a marker manufacturing company. 💀

[@ZACKDEV]

Yep. My last jobs tech stack was Expo because me I was the only engineer haha.

[@Way_Of_The_Light]

So how’s this when compared to flutter ?

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Thank you for the kind words. It's great to hear that Expo has meaningfully changed how you build. And yes, we've got tons more to ship in the coming months and years.

[@ZACKDEV]

@@ExpoDevelopers expo Ai next

[@PositionTheory]

I love using Expo. It’s a dream for a solo mobile developer 🙏🏻

[@casparbosch5615]

We've been using Expo at my school for 2 years and it's finally getting the attention it deserves.

[@joshua_226]

Expo is GOATED fr. It provides an amazing developer experience

[@uiuxengineer]

Working with an Expo about a month for a couple of personal projects and i love how the expo is evolving. Love to work for Front-end with Next and for mobiles app with Expo. Both are great frameworks!

[@ZACKDEV]

Expo is something I will continue to use in any stack that requires mobile application development.

[@AadilValconi]

I used expo in one of my college projects to develop a mobile app. Very cool tool and live testing helped me so much. Thanks for bringing light to this.

[@brentvatne]

love it! thanks for sharing what we're building at Expo

[@pulkit.guglani]

do you work in Expo?

[@bigheartsmolpen]

Are you Expo?

[@armaan-dev]

Expo lessens the burden for developers to just write the software than dive into android | ios configurations and all those stuff . Also i didn't knew that you could also publish websites with an expo app. Hopefully now i am gonna look into it. This is a really amazing informative video

[@adamm4739]

The music is absolutely amazing. The comfy atmosphere sounds with learning

[@Flash136]

Expo is the reason I began to love mobile dev. Awesome video!

[@bashbash]

Jeff always posts videos exactly when I need them. Awesome guy

[@ardafirarda3295]

No AI Video. Thank god. That was refreshing!

[@trezenx]

but an ad instead, not a great swap

[@Naej7]

Half of the videos are not AI related

[@Naej7]

@@trezenxAn ad for a free stuff ?

[@teovanlung-oa]

​@@Naej7AI*

[@pingandpong674]

@@trezenx An ad? This is very much in line with the 100 seconds series. Not sure what makes you think it's an ad

[@ArisFilms]

Expo delivers a lot of value. Been using since 2018

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Wowowow. You've seen a lot of Expo versions. What are you hoping we build next?

[@ArisFilms]

@@ExpoDevelopers At this point Expo has come so far that none of my original issues still exist so thank you for years of maintenance and improvements. The last problem I had was with inconsistent image uploading. This isn’t an issue with Expo directly and is because of undocumented differences between iOS and Android’s expectations for headers on outgoing requests to upload an image as well as differences in how iOS and Android expect you to to reference a local file (file:// or file:/) if Expo introduced a package for this it would be very well received. Expo is an amazing project and grateful for all the participants years of contributions

[@IG7799-c4u]

Just started learning React Native for a group project so Expo has been great.

[@brunopanizzi]

Damn expo really improved since I've last used it. File based routing seems so much better than messing with all sorts of navigators

[@username4794]

It's amazing how far Expo has come in the past couple of years. I'm so glad for the team since this is a real challenge. Expo will be the one JS framework to rule them all. Android, iOS, Web, MacOS, Windows, VisionOS with just one codebase. Absolutely amazing

[@psySmeerN]

No, Expo only has support for android, iOS, and the web.(Assuming natively)

[@jldymy]

I am been using expo since 2019, it is amazing and still getting better.

[@jdmaldonado06]

I used to work for some time with Expo, and was quite challenging sometimes, because of the plugins. I just watched this video and am like what? this changed a lot... Giving a second try soon.

[@GiovanniSorgoni]

it’s incredible how every time I start learning or I discover a new framework/technology/stack fireship makes a video exactly 1 month after. There’s surely some kind of magic trick

[@Baconbrix]

Fantastic video! Covered so much ground so fast 🤯

[@justpatrick_]

I knew I'd find you here 😂. The RN community is just larking around having a blast 😂

[@Baconbrix]

@@justpatrick_ I got so many notifications about this video that my phone nearly exploded haha

[@kohlod]

God?

[@elvispalace]

you are everywhere

[@chirhojak]

we're not worthy!

[@abrahamchristopher2805]

As a web developer it took me just 2 days with the help of documentation to start writing react native with Expo🎉

[@pain-nw5lo]

Started my first project in Expo like 2 weeks ago, all I can say about the Expo that it is amazing. Without much experience in mobile I am able to write an app from scratch without learning 5 other technologies and it is not a problem that I use Windows

[@moveonvillain1080]

What authflow are you using?

[@ahmeddhouib2882]

OH MY GOD , literally when i started React Native , thank you man , love your content ❤

[@kw4093-v3p]

Expo is extremely underrated. And from what I can see, performance isn't bad either!

[@JEROME_BLACKSTONE]

Expo had limitations when I first used it where you couldnt use native deps without ejecting but now that they have introduced development its my go to for mobile app dev

[@rico993]

Great summary. Would love to see a comparison video of Expo vs Flutter

[@thisweekinreact]

Expo is the best! And this greatly explains what it is in a few seconds!

[@superslayerguy]

Used Expo at my last job it’s dope

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Boom! Love that. What did you build with it?

[@superslayerguy]

@@ExpoDevelopersoh no shit the actual expo team! I worked on a healthcare benefits app that people could use to access their benefits :)

[@adimail2404]

I started learning react native a month aga and build an application. Watching a video from fireship about a technology I started learning is some sort of validation that the decision I took ws good 😅

[@trueberryless]

such ez frameworks are so important for us

[@mikoajmrozek3710]

Actually surprised that we got the video about this just now

[@sandzz]

There is a big limitation in expo. You can not create/use custom modules. Suppose you started your project in expo and you have spent a lot of time and effort in it. Then you need to integrate a 3rd party SDK to your project and that 3rd party don't provide their SDK for react-native, they only provide it as android or iOS sdk. In that case you are stuck... (I don't know if they added this feature recently though)

[@osku388]

How is that possible, is it not open sourced?

[@sandzz]

@@osku388 open source is only cool when you have enough man power to fork an open source project and maintain by yourself because a lot of times original maintainers of open source projects stop maintaining. And in case of rapid changes in mobile env you have to keep those projects updated every year during new Android and iOS release cycle. Me and my friend are building a production grade app for our start up. It took us almost 2 yrs to build (we both have fulltime jobs and only able to spend a small amount of time in it) and in that time I updated react native twice (which is a big hassle for some versions) and saw multiple open source projects go idle (they don't update their code with latest changes made by android or iOS) because of that we can't integrate their projects anymore.

[@justpatrick_]

Yes they already added it. Google expo modules api.

[@thechrisgate]

you are not stuck ...there is something called pre-build and yes I have integrated RFID devices SDK with Expo

[@okie9025]

This was a problem that was fixed a few years ago

[@john-hamlin]

People who haven't looked at Expo in a few years have no idea how powerful it's gotten

[@ScottMaday]

Guys I just lost a *MASSIVE* bet. Fireship actually uploaded a video that didn't mention the word "AI" or "metaverse". I have to shave my head now.

[@Silent_Squid-p3f]

Actually started learn RN for a month now, nice helpful video! Want more tutorials about it as current ones are outdated

[@jonathanrhein7553]

Is there anything like Expo out there or on the way for Svelte/Sveltekit?

[@okie9025]

Svelte is fundamentally focused on the web, especially SvelteKit, so even if a mobile framework for Svelte comes out eventually, I doubt it's going to be nice to use.

[@douglowder]

Thanks so much for this! A really outstanding and fast paced summary of what we do at Expo :)

[@henninghoefer]

2:33 I'd love to learn about how to do 3D stuff in the browser

[@Yuvaraj-fq1vh]

Just use spline or blender (if you know more about these pls educate me I'm now only starting)

[@BryceDriesenga]

Rive is a good option. Otherwise for simple 3d transforms and animations of web elements, CSS is quite capable natively

[@SubtleTomato]

I legitimately stopped working on a project because I didn't want to learn swift while I was learning kotlin, am working full time doing non coding stuff, and have other projects I want to finish, and became disheartened when I realized my idea for the project only really made sense if I had an iOS version (I use android personally and started with what I knew more about). Thank you for this video, I think this might get me back into something I really cared about.

[@Stuntman5701]

god, why javascript.

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

Because cheap developers

[@MrMate91]

You can have your types with TypeScript if you wish 😂

[@gooze3888]

Dont use God's name in vain pls :(

[@no_name4796]

The funny part is that this question still work in 95% of all development lol

[@XDarkGreyX]

Cuz ppl just cannot not

[@HemstitchedIrony]

Recently had to start learning react native for work and expo is amazing

[@FalconTheFries]

World peace can only be achieved when all applications are written in JavaScript Thank you expo for bringing that world closer

[@danvilela]

Expo sounds cool! Back in 2018 I was between flutter and react native. Fell in love with Flutter and got on this journey, but if not I would definitely had used Expo.

[@abdulwahabqureshi6264]

0:22 Easter egg

[@qaw392]

Truly amazing, now we can look what we want to build using this video

[@yxurbrx]

oh sh*t, I didn't know that expo has such a rich set of tools like routing, etc. I am currently using React Navigation for this stuff:( thank you for the very useful video!

[@MarjoForcado]

It's scary how I was just thinking about expo and yet here it is

[@shanthkoka]

I love expo, they’re even adding server side code 🎉

[@erickmoya1401]

Yo what?

[@Norfeldt]

Expo is fantastic. Have used it in several projects with great success and avoiding too much hassle. Might wanna add the info that you can easy use bun since it's not running node on the phone but Hermes.

[@Bindie]

lost me at javascript

[@user-xl5kd6il6c]

What did you expect? C? or tranny Rust?

[@renbo7362]

why

[@Bindie]

@@renbo7362 I'm a php developer, I do everything in my power to avoid javascript

[@kaypakaipa8559]

Seethe

[@Fennecbutt]

Stay mad

[@daniel.w8112]

I'm planning to build a huge app with it. Thanks for the intro. Looks like the DX is gonna be amazing.

[@julianojosoa2145]

It is 🙂

[@ezrapierce1233]

You lost me at React😂

[@yusufmafif]

Thank you, perfect timing, I just started learning Expo.

[@fero5070]

As of 1.5 year working as an Expo developer i can truly say this framework really speeds up the development process

[@ullaba_id]

Is good for production using expo ??? Some people said not recommended its true ???

[@elvispalace]

​@@ullaba_id Expo is the recommended framework for RN by fb team

[@yiraqcic1348]

DIOXUS!! You don't have enough rust frameworks and libraries. Keep it up. We love your work :)

[@wdudafa6958]

I've used expo and I gotta say, its pretty dope

[@ExpoDevelopers]

preciate the kind words!

[@dra942959]

I have looked at many tutorials on setting up the environment, and they were all difficult to follow. But with your guidance, I was able to set it up quickly and easily.

[@ahajri89]

if it really does not needs a mac to compile an app that's FANTASTIC!

[@zb2747]

I admire Expos growth over the years

[@bbok1616]

As a web dev love this tool. And it has so many more unique features!

[@Grinwa]

The greatest tool I've ever used so far They even let u build the whole app on their servers for free 😮

[@thezanke]

I started one of my infinite toy learning projects w expo a bit over a year and a half ago I think and my only gripe was just how many deps I had to shoehorn into the project and keep version compatibility balanced, and some clunky edges.. but that's very little pain for what this platform accomplishes and id absolutely use it again!

[@LoyTakian]

Warp was released for Linux today. It would be cool if you make a video about it

[@ClariNerd]

Warp my beloved

[@bobbyjose2265]

This brings back so much memories ❤.. I switched to flutter from react native though.

[@Mpanagiotopoulos]

why ?

[@Shieky2000]

Flutter is really fast, and has a nice developer experience @@Mpanagiotopoulos . Thats, at least why i switched to it.

[@ewwitsantonio]

Thank you! Had no clue this existed and it's perfect for my current project!

[@clickadelic7681]

Dude, I love the relaxing music - 100 seconds of mental relax, while getting turbo educated.

[@JamonsCodeQuests]

Expo is fantastic and just keeps getting better.

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Thanks Jamon!

[@elvispalace]

hi jamon

[@lwitteman]

Nice video! Would love to see expo vs flutter comparison

[@keremardicli4013]

Wooww. Expo sound strong and looks promising

[@СакитАлиев-е5е]

Good luck on updating libraries

[@gren97]

You really just made me try Expo.

[@chrisgascoyne2958]

That actually sound really nice as a developer experience.

[@yante7]

this is actually really cool

[@marcinborkowicz2557]

Good to see your mom in your code again, Jeff. All the best for you!

[@labadcloyd]

Its refreshing to listen to jeff make a video that isn’t saturated with jokes

[@TehEpicMuffzor]

I started with bare React Native in 2016 then moved to Expo since they made managing the Android and iOS builds easier. The technology is powerful, though the styling takes some getting used to since only some CSS props are supported for different components. I'm glad you're doing a video on it now that it's matured and their cloud offerings make building a breeze.

[@Alisson0022_]

I'm recently learn react native with expo. Could you elaborate more about your take? It would be really awesome for me to understand your thought process on this one.

[@TehEpicMuffzor]

Having come from a React web background, I found the styling system in React Native to be cumbersome and limiting compared to using real CSS. That being said, I'd rather use RN styles over styling in xml with kotlin or swift

[@cse9003]

why tf is this tool not that popular ????? bro thats so fricking awsome !!!!!!!

[@niomeda]

Wow I'm so excited to try this one out!

[@elvispalace]

Popular apps using React Native: Amazon shopping, Microsoft Office, Facebook Marketplace, Discord, Pinterest, etc...

[@Fadbangles]

I looooooove expo. It’s soooo easy and over the years soo many modules work on it now.

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Love to hear it!

[@OrmeJeffrey]

never heard of it ! now i'm mixed between Expo and Flutter

[@leonardorubuz2243]

Needed this video exactly today. Thanks

[@ExpoDevelopers]

What are you looking to build?

[@leonardorubuz2243]

@@ExpoDevelopers A Deezer clone to get familiar with mobile development

[@leonardorubuz2243]

​@@ExpoDevelopers A Deezer clone to get familiar with mobile development

[@thesterplace]

Fantastic as always 🎉

[@Light846]

I learned more in this 100 second video than a 2 hour course

[@AKRIDASGAMWEKSOGIINI]

surge of nostalgia when I saw 100 seconds fireship in my feed

[@alextl97]

I use react native CLI in my job, and I think the phrase I read online is true. Expo is easy until it isn't, CLI is hard until it isn't.

[@brentvatne]

this may have been true a long time ago, but it's no longer the case as of several years ago when expo added CNG and EAS Build - now using react native without expo is just causing yourself unnecessary hardship imo

[@konoko-o3o]

Skill issue

[@tylerlaprade642]

I was just looking into options the other day and BAM fireship video

[@jonathankibet9750]

Love the background music. And less AI stuff. Amazing ! ❤

[@jgoemat]

I'll have to check it out again. I tried a few years ago and it was a PITA and you did require a Mac to do iPhone. Looks like the developer experience has been improved.

[@sl3pycat]

no AI... no Zuckerberg... no Fruit based goggles... just pure 100 seconds of discovery... Thank you Jeff, i still have hope ❤

[@ExpoDevelopers]

Jeff

[@WackChen]

i absolutely love how these videos are just not in 100 seconds