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Without a doubt, Expo is one of the worst tools I have ever used.

1. I can't get a debug build of the app without using their cloud services.

2. Latest version of Android app to preview Expo apps did not work with latest stable Expo version.

3. Random build errors all the time due to some features being deprecated without being mentioned anywhere.

4. Tries to do too much and breaks quite often

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> 4. Tries to do too much and breaks quite often

This is the impression I've gotten recently testing their waters. Overall, my take has been to stay away from it unless the app I'm making is simple enough they have templates floating around the web and won't need further tweaking: similar to wordpress, great to have a certain type of app up and running fast but the minute you have to do extensive work on it, you'll wish death on it.

They improve a lot in the last 2 years, give it another try. The experience nowadays is pretty pleasant compare the plain RN project

The experience is from my experiments earlier this year

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