Expo
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Dec 2, 2025first mention
Sep 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“switched web, ios, android all back to expo/rn. I love that testing is only (almost) only thing now”
“React Native + Expo is also a good option”
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“I got most of this done with Claude and expo.dev”
“I used Expo recently and loved the development experience.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I've built something similar using Expo. That's the stack that I'm most familiar with and surprisingly the performance of the app is pretty good.”
Threads where it came up
- Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin 1 mention
- Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI 1 mention
- Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) 1 mention
- Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026? 1 mention
- Skip Is Now Free and Open Source 1 mention
Data: expo.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“switched web, ios, android all back to expo/rn. I love that testing is only (almost) only thing now”
“React Native + Expo is also a good option”
Location: Istanbul, Türkiye (relocating to Guildford, UK in Sept 2026) Remote: Yes — full EU overlap; US-East evenings (UTC+3, moving to UTC+0) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Fastify, Next.js, React, React Native/Expo, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Redis/BullMQ, Claude API, RAG, tool-calling/MCP, pgvector, Playwright Résumé/CV: https://github.com/denizcakiroglu322 Email: denizcakiroglu322@gma
“I got most of this done with Claude and expo.dev”
“I used Expo recently and loved the development experience.”
“React Native + Expo (running on react-native-web)”
“The app is built with React Native (Expo SDK 54).”
“It's built with Expo by a 17-year-old!”