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> For a small team, without too much native experience, I'd still 100% recommend using expo.

Maybe I'm too optimistic but as a web developer I loved being given the opportunity to learn some Swift and Kotlin. Compared to Objective C and Java they are really very approachable for JS devs and with not all that much work you'll end up with a deeper bench of developers more satisfied with their jobs.

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Looking to always learn new things is great. If you find yourself looking to try out Expo and have completed the first setup steps, I'd suggest looking at making a development build of your app and the Expo Modules API for writing Kotlin and Swift code.

Almost all of the best apps made with Expo also have a small amount of custom native code. And I find it's just generally good to understand the abstraction layer above and the abstraction layer below the one you're working at to bring the two together the best you can.

[development-builds]: https://docs.expo.dev/develop/development-builds/introductio... [expo-modules]: https://docs.expo.dev/modules/overview/

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