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Exposition
Company blog · blog.expo.ioprogrammingweb
Exposition is the company blog at blog.expo.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2017, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “Upcoming Limitations to iOS Expo Client”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Expo's Medium blog for announcements and explanations of its React Native tooling, including Create React Native App, Sketch, ARKit Playground, SDK releases and iOS client limitations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Upcoming Limitations to iOS Expo Client3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-27
- Introducing: Expo Run Commands2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-29
- Expo for Professionals2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-25
- Expo SDK v33 – React Native Development Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-06
What Hacker News says?
For anyone missing context, naming is hard. https://blog.expo.io/expo-sketch-expo-snack-a444f8dec72b
Comment linking /expo-sketch-expo-snack-a444f8dec72b
on “Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app”Submitted Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16) as a story · 331 points
HN discussionHello! The examples use a navigation library that is implemented entirely in JavaScript and it does not currently aim for 100% accuracy for platform gestures and animations. Pure JS navigation is a work in progress with React Native but, in my eyes, it's the ideal end-state (see a post I wrote here for more info: https://blog.expo.io/good-practices-why-you-should-use-javas... ), but to get there we need some more po…
Comment linking /good-practices-why-you-should-use-javascript-whenever-possible-with-react-native-26478ec22334
on “Introducing Create React Native App”Submitted Expo Application Services (EAS): Build and Submit as a story · 20 points
HN discussionIf you're talking about Exponent, this the same company. They rebranded recently, see https://blog.expo.io/exponent-expo-b172fb6725a7?gi=922dca1bc...
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on “Introducing Sketch: A Playground for React Native from Expo (YC S16)”Submitted Should We Use React Native? Thoughts from Expo Following Airbnb Sunsetting RN as a story · 17 points
HN discussionoops -- i fixed the medium link. thanks for the heads up. here it is: https://blog.expo.io/introducing-expo-ar-mobile-augmented-re...
Comment linking /introducing-expo-ar-mobile-augmented-reality-with-javascript-powered-by-arkit-b0d5a02ff23
on “Show HN: ARKit Playground – Make ARKit Experiences in JS from Your Browser”Submitted Automatically Deploy Pull Requests for Create React Native App and Expo Projects as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHi- I worked on this along with some other people. Here's what a demo looks like: https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-28-2017/gMnJTj.gif You can try a really cool demo made with it here: https://expo.io/@nikki/dire-dire-ducks It fills your room with water and has ducks swimming around. The sound changes if you dive underwater, and if you press the screen, the ducks will swim towards you. This is a video of what it looks…
Comment linking /introducing-expo-ar-mobile-augmented-reality-with-javascript-powered-by-arkit-b0d5a02ff23
on “Show HN: ARKit Playground – Make ARKit Experiences in JS from Your Browser”Submitted Covid-19 Apps and APIs and Expo as a story · 5 points
HN discussionApple can update the guidelines anytime, sometimes forcing you to drop some features. Expo's iOS client had to drop QR code reading: https://blog.expo.io/upcoming-limitations-to-ios-expo-client...
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on “Ask HN: Why don't big softwares use App Store on Mac OS X?”Submitted Upcoming Limitations to iOS Expo Client as a story · 5 points
HN discussionExpo released their support web (still in beta) at the start of the month, bringing react native + API extensions to iOS/Android + web. https://blog.expo.io/expo-sdk-v33-0-0-is-now-available-52d1c... Ignoring the user interface, having a single JS codebase for APIs, business logic and unit tests is pretty darn exciting IMO, especially with typescript support.
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on “Announcing React Native 0.60”Submitted Expo Sketch → Expo Snack as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sketch – A Playground for React Native as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expo SDK 35 is now available, supports iOS Dark Mode as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expo SDK v33 – React Native Development Platform as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expo SDK v32.0.0 is now available as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Build Cloud-Powered Mobile Apps with Expo and AWS Amplify as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Announcing Expo Dev Tools (beta) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introducing: Expo Run Commands as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expo SDK 41 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expo Go – a new name for the Expo Client as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Push Notifications and In-App Messaging with OneSignal and Expo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expo SDK 36 is now available as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS Pseudo-Class Effects in Expo for Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Care of Business as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can now use Expo APIs in any React Native app as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ExpoKit 2019 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Expo for React Native SDK v17.0.0 is now available as a story · 2 points
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