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Expo app development
Build React Native apps with Expo: routing, native UI, animation, data fetching, native modules, upgrades, and shipping to the App Store and Google Play with EAS.
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- App Store Deployment
Build and submit iOS and Android apps with EAS to TestFlight, the App Store, or Google Play. Supports Expo and other React Native projects, plus existing native apps. Use for…
- EAS Hosting
Deploy Expo websites and Expo Router API routes to EAS Hosting - export the web bundle, run eas deploy for production and PR preview URLs, manage environment secrets and custom…
- EAS Observe
Use for anything related to EAS Observe - adding `expo-observe` to an Expo project (AppMetricsRoot/ObserveRoot HOC, markInteractive and ObserveInteractiveMarker, the useObserve…
- EAS Update
Configure and use EAS Update for over-the-air JavaScript and asset updates with expo-updates and EAS CLI. Use when setting up OTA updates, running eas update:configure or eas…
- EAS Update Insights
Check the health of published EAS Update: crash rates, install/launch counts, unique users, payload size, and the split between embedded and OTA users per channel. Use when the…
- Building Animations in Expo
Build animations in React Native and Expo, making the decisions in the order that determines whether they feel right — should it animate, which thread it runs on, which…
- Add an App Clip to an Expo App
Add an iOS App Clip target to an Expo app. Use when the user mentions App Clip, AASA, apple-app-site-association, appclips, smart app banner, or wants to ship a lightweight iOS…
- Expo Brownfield
Integrate Expo and React Native into an existing native iOS or Android app. Use for brownfield, embedding a React Native screen in SwiftUI/UIKit or Kotlin, or AAR/XCFramework…
- Expo Networking
Use when implementing or debugging ANY network request, API call, or data fetching. Covers fetch API, React Query, SWR, error handling, caching, offline support…
- Expo Design Systems
Build and maintain a design system inside an Expo app - a reusable theme of design tokens (color, spacing, typography, radius, shadow, motion), reusable component structure with…
- iOS (requires Xcode)
Build and distribute Expo development clients locally or via TestFlight for internal testing. For production TestFlight releases and store submission, use the eas-app-stores skill.
- Expo dom
Use Expo DOM components to run web code in a webview on native and as-is on web. Migrate web code to native incrementally. For the end-to-end migration of a whole web app, use…
- Expo Examples
Expo's official example projects - the expo/examples repo of ~70 `with-*` integrations (Stripe, Clerk, Supabase, OpenAI, maps, Reanimated, SQLite, Skia, NativeWind, and more)…
- Writing Expo Modules
Guide for creating and writing Expo native modules and views using the Expo Modules API (Swift, Kotlin, TypeScript). Covers module definition DSL, native views, shared objects…
- Expo Native UI Guidelines
Build beautiful, native-feeling Expo screens. Covers Apple HIG styling, semantic colors, native controls, SF Symbols, media, visual effects, gradients, storage, and responsive…
- expo-overview — router & shared rules for Expo / EAS
Entry point and router for every Expo or EAS task. Load this skill first — before writing code and before choosing another expo-* / eas-* skill — when the request, PRD, or spec…
- Expo Project Structure
Folder structure for a new Expo app. Use when scaffolding or laying out a new Expo project with Expo Router, or deciding where a file should live in one. For new projects only —…
- Expo Router Navigation
Navigation and routing for Expo Router. Covers file-based routes, groups and dynamic routes, folder organization, Link with previews and context menus, native Stack, page titles…
- Expo upgrade
Guidelines for upgrading Expo SDK versions and fixing dependency issues
- Web to Native
Migrate an existing web React app to a native iOS/Android app with Expo. Use when the user wants to turn a website into a mobile app, port a Next.js/Vite/CRA React codebase to…
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Frequently asked questions
What is in the Expo app development skill set?
20 skills: App Store Deployment, EAS Hosting, EAS Observe, EAS Update, EAS Update Insights, Building Animations in Expo, and 14 more.
Is the Expo app development skill set free?
Yes. It is published by Expo under the MIT licence and works with a free Phở account.
How do I add Expo app development to Phở?
Press Open in Phở and add the set once. From then on Phở picks the right skill from it whenever a request matches.
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