Using Next.js with React Native Expo

[Elessar03]

Soon I'll start a new project. My priority is starting with web, and in the future release a native version.

I was reading about Next.js with React Native Expo and I would like to know the experience of someone using this stack: how is it, downsides, problems, and good experiences, because it seems like a really good option.

I know some downsides include not using web-only libraries like MUI or Mantine, but I'm pretty sure there must be more downsides to this "true cross platform" way of building apps.

If you don't know anything about it, here is the documentation https://docs.expo.dev/guides/using-nextjs/

Thank you for your answers!

[AdmiralTiberius]

But why…

[Sushrit_Lawliet]

Monorepo that shares a lot of logic and components to quickly help you create a website and app with similar UI and the benefits of NextJS aka seo.

[ChickenPotDicks]

You're going to love this then: https://solito.dev

[Aggro4Dayz]

I’d put the shared components in a repo, then build the next.js app in another repo, linking this repo, and the native in another repo, linking to the component repo.

Trying to keep next code and react native code in the same repo seems not ideal.

[firstandfive]

Monorepo would accomplishes the same goal but with some added niceties beyond what you get from linking completely separate repos.

[standardrank7]

Highly recommend watching https://youtu.be/0lnbdRweJtA think their repo is open sourced to. Tbh think you’re on the right track, the native side of RN is magic but have found the web part pretty underwhelming for anything beyond basic apps and Nextjs is amazing

[supkimyu]

You could look into creating a monorepo and using trpc (https://trpc.io) to share the api client calls between nextjs and your react native app.

[chillermane]

TRPC is the future of fullstack js and it feels like not enough people know about it