Are there any tutorials or documentation on integrating Expo with a different RN build process? For example, if we have an existing setup with TypeScript or want to use Mocha instead of Jest or whatever.
Some people have set up some stuff for doing ClojureScript with Expo.
https://docs.expo.io/versions/v14.0.0/guides/using-clojuresc...
You can find them in the #clojurescript channel in the Expo community Slack. https://slack.expo.io/
That might be the best place to start.
I also threw up a post in the forums that we just setup. https://forums.expo.io/t/integration-with-typescript-mocha-o...
I'm used to using Webpack or Gulp or Grunt to transpile source code into something deployable on the web. The React Native / Expo packaging process feels opaque to me though. It's not clear to me, for instance, whether Expo uses https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/package... or whether it has some kind of different packaging process.
Likewise, a newly created project with the XDE builds automatically using Babel. But it's not clear from the project itself how XDE knows to use Babel. Is Babel hard-coded in the XDE? Can I turn it off?
Expo apps also all seem to have a `registerRootComponent` function, but there isn't any documentation on what this function actually does.
The `registerRootComponent` function is essentially a facade to `AppRegistry.registerComponent` but it also configures hooks for Expo's asset system.
- This guide from Microsoft explains how to use typescript: http://www.reactnative.tools/tutorials/2016/09/20/reactnativ...
- This is a bit old but could help with Mocha setup: https://formidable.com/blog/2016/02/08/unit-testing-react-na...
Hope that helps!
It looks like the setup is still a bit messy, they do mention open issues and it seems that some people are working on making the experience smoother, it would be awesome to have something as simple as:
create-react-native-app my-project --language typescript