Support for Windows and MacOs apps development #22273
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Yeah there's also react-native-macos. Targeting desktops would be great, but sounds like it is currently not a priority. This looks to be deprecated, but suggests running the expo web target via Electron: At least ChatGPT thinks it's possible 🤷♂️ (it isn't 👻)
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Seems Expo team is not too interested in Win/MacOS desktop platforms, so perhaps the discussion can be now, |
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well, currently there is this issue, if you add macOS to current expo project (ExpoModulesCode seems to be failing build somehow) trying to find workaround myself, but not sure it will be successful |
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I am trying to convert a React Native Expo app to React Native Windows app and React Native MacOC app. To test if that is possible, I created a project using React Native Expo, ran npx expo prebuild to generate the native source code, and then tried to add macOS/Windows app dependencies. On macOS, I am facing the ExpoModulesCore issue. On Windows, I am facing fmt issue: Any suggestions / workarounds? |
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At this point, it looks like the next major player in the cross-platform app will be Tauri, it's not there yet but they intend to support Web, Mobile, and Desktop, so instead of grabbing the Expo app and wrapping the web version in Electron, just using Tauri directly seems simpler and more performant (at least in desktop). |
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So is there current guideline for developing an app for win/macos with expo? |
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Here's the screenshot from recent React Conf 2024 @EvanBacon please shed some light on building for Mac? And possibly on Windows using RN for Windows? |
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Continuous attention |
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Hello!
I've read on React Native website something interesting! it seems that Microsoft has made some libraries to empower React Native, in order to make it suitable to build Windows/MacOS apps.
Now I think about Expo, what is the plan ?? is it possible for Expo to build for Windows/MacOS like it does for mobile/web now ?
I'd like to open this topic and listen to community thoughts, including Expo team.
Thank you for your attention.
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