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Expo
Company blog · expo.dev/blogprogrammingweb
Expo is the company blog at expo.dev, writing about programming and web. Since 2022, 39 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Universal Native Apps in React”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (18) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Expo's site, blog and changelog as a React Native platform for building apps across iOS, Android and web. Cited posts cover SDK releases, native iOS features and local-first tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 18 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Develop, validate, deploy and monitor iOS, Android, and web apps from one codebase. Expo gives your team and its agents the infrastructure to ship apps to production.
Most-linked posts?
- Universal Native Apps in React10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2022-04-28
- Expo SDK 50 just launched2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-01-18
- Show HN: From web dev to shipping my first native app2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-20
- LiveStore: SQLite-based data layer for local-first apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-22
- Precompiled React Native for iOS: Faster builds are coming in 0.812 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-07-31
- What if useState was your back end?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-13
- /pricing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-26
What Hacker News says?
I need it to build the recent Expo ( https://expo.dev/ ) versions, and to target newer iOS features. I tried to stick with Sequoia for as long as I could, but I had to upgrade to macOS 27 last month :( Fortunately, I found that there is now a way to reduce the stupid corner radius ("defaults write -g NSConvolutionOverride1 -float 8") and to remove the floating sidebars ("defaults write -g NSSplitViewItemSidebarDefau…
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on “Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads”Submitted Expo launches EAS Hosting: Serverless deployment for universal React apps as a story · 9 points
HN discussionAs are we :) btw checkout LiveStore if you haven’t already: https://expo.dev/blog/local-first-application-development-wi... It’s not fully released yet but it is now open to GitHub sponsors and it’s very cool.
Comment linking /blog/local-first-application-development-with-livestore
on “Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release”Submitted How to build an offline-first app using Expo and Legend State as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere’s this https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz... And to a lesser extent this: https://expo.dev/ (It won’t target games consoles or non-headless edge devices, that I know of).
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on “Dioxus 0.6 – Crossplatform apps with Rust”Submitted Bringing React Server Components to React Native as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThats neat. It makes me think of expo [0] that does it in the same way, pretty useful to try stuff quickly, but forces to go though their servers. [0] https://expo.dev/
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on “Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok”Submitted What synced in-app SQLite brings to Expo apps as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYeah, and according to https://expo.dev/blog/precompiled-react-native-for-ios and linked https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-pr... , it seems moving off CocoaPods has barely moved past planning stage. Latest update from two weeks ago links to https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/52909 and says it’s very very experimental. Just great…
Comment linking /blog/precompiled-react-native-for-ios
on “CocoaPods trunk read-only plan”Submitted Integrating iOS 26 Liquid Glass App with Expo UI and SwiftUI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI get where you're coming from but React Native(RN) is a bad example. RN is actually native and uses native components. So any native view will be supported, including Liquid Glass. e.g. https://expo.dev/changelog/sdk-54-beta#ios-26-and-liquid-gla... or https://github.com/callstack/liquid-glass
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on “Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for”Submitted Unistyles 3.0: Beyond React Native StyleSheet as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>The first question that popped into my head when I saw this headline was: Is React Native still a hot mess? Expo [0] is what really makes things painless now. There's no more struggling with native binary dependency hell. And the entire App store submission process is completely managed; building, signing, uploading, and pushing a new version from your machine to Apple is just a single CLI command. [0] https://expo…
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on “Discord Switching to React Native for Android App”Submitted Expo SDK 53 beta is now available as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm sure some web-to-native workflows are documented just by popular demand. Like this React Native + Expo review posted recently: https://expo.dev/blog/from-web-to-native-with-react-native-a... But for an absolutely minimal native example, I followed this guide: https://czak.pl/2016/01/13/minimal-android-project.html with a few adjustments and got an app to compile.
Comment linking /blog/from-web-to-native-with-react-native-and-expo
on “Why is Android Development so difficult/complex? (compared to Web and Desktop)”Submitted LiveStore: SQLite-based data layer for local-first apps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCool stuff, especially spiderfier. What's your opinion of expo-maps? https://expo.dev/blog/introducing-expo-maps-a-modern-maps-ap...
Comment linking /blog/introducing-expo-maps-a-modern-maps-api-for-expo-developers
on “Show HN: I rewrote an outdated React Native map clustering library”Submitted How to synchronize reactive local-first apps with TinyBase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot at all. I use Expo tho :P https://expo.dev/
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on “Ask HN: Who's tired of upgrading React Native?”Submitted Show HN: From web dev to shipping my first native app as a story · 3 points
HN discussionsaying Expo is "free" is disingenuous. sure, you can self-hosts and duct-tapep pipelines together on-prem, but at that point you're just paying in devops hours instead, something which is not part of flutter DX your comparison for web is a lazy trope. If a Flutter app is invisible to VoiceOver, thats on the developer for ignoring the semantics tree, not the framework ironically, your point on React Strict DOM actual…
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on “Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible”Submitted Expo SDK 50 just launched as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat a weird comment, anybody can see the pricing on Expo's website, sure there is a free plan but you are almost certainly going to end up paying it's "optional" like so many open core projects these days that deliver a rough free version with issues ( https://github.com/expo/expo/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Ao... ) that naturally pulls developers into their paid plan you keep avoiding my question, what is your re…
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on “Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible”Submitted Expo Orbit v1: launcher app launched into orbit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis one?? https://expo.dev/ Our code broke It looks like there was an error we need to look at. Sorry about the inconvenience.
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on “Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Opening Xcode”Submitted Expo SDK 58 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's 'expo', right? https://expo.dev/ Haven't looked at this stack. Thanks for the suggestion.
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on “Building a multi-platform on-call mobile app with React Native in 2024”Submitted What if useState was your back end? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://expo.dev/changelog/2024/01-18-sdk-50
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on “Expo SDK 50”Submitted Bolt and Expo: Get your idea to the app store without writing code as a story · 2 points
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