A few years ago, we created a little card game that poked fun at all the ups and downs of a typical development milestone. Players can enjoy development iterations reduced to simple card draws, with each card designed to spark laughs and conversations about past project experiences.

We discuss the benefits of using a private node registry with Expo Application Services, as well as the steps involved in using such a registry.

Expo, a framework that significantly improves the React Native developer experience, has become very popular in the last couple of years. Its “managed” workflow lets developers work entirely in React; the underlying native app, including the often messy process of updating React Native, is completely taken care of by the framework.

React Native is great for writing mobile applications. It lets you use web paradigms for UI construction, which are usually much simpler than the native analogues.

CarPlay is an Apple iOS car integration standard that allows you to display content from your iPhone onto your compatible car head unit and control your phone. Common uses for this include casting music from services such as Spotify or Apple Music or for trip navigation using a map application.

Mobile development mostly deals with 2 platforms: iOS and Android. There are distinct ecosystems for both platforms — each has its own languages (Java and Kotlin for Android, Objective-C, and Swift for iOS), its own standard environment (Android Studio for Android, Xcode for iOS), its own app architectures, app stores, libraries, etc.

React Native is a JavaScript framework for writing hybrid native mobile applications for both iOS and Android platforms. React Native uses the same JSX and React development approach you would take for developing for the browser, but applications get built as native applications in Objective-C (for iOS) or Java (for Android) by the React Native tooling.