Move from React-native to expo

Migrate react native projects to a more sophisticated ecosystem and leverage white label applications

Ricardo Ribas
5 min readSep 7, 2023
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Hi folks! You might be wondering the reasoning of making an article about this, if you can just read the documentation. If you are just trying different tools, or your project is taking the first steps, the documentation might suit your needs. However, chances are that your project is so damn complex, you have (1) many react native dependencies installed, (2) you have a deployment already in place, (3) you find it extremely hard to upgrade versions on your project and (3) you have users in production. Or you are someone like me that is trying to support white label applications and needs to delegate the burden of configuring and deploying new tenants to a more reliable ecosystem.

For those who are not familiar with the concept, white label applications refer to software which main purpose is to resell for businesses that, in turn, can rebrand it like their own. In this article, I will try to share with you guys the headaches that I had during the process, but highlight how gratifying it was to have it working…

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Ricardo Ribas

Software Engineer passionate about rock climbing, yoga, gaming and travelling