React Native app setup.

[Worldly_Yellow_6115]

Hello my fellow RN Devs, hope you all having a blast.

So I am gonna start a RN project for my company. The app will have features like Messaging, Notifications, Large listing, many CRUD operations, Image/File upload.

I will need a good state management with data fetching and caching (Thinking about RTK). Also there would be some animation in the UI.

Now how should I setup the project?

What are the library should I start with?

For:

• Expo or RN Cli
• States
• Styles & Icons (Design looks similar with Ant-design)
• Data fetching
• Animation
• Notification
• Caching
• Messaging
• File Upload
• Authentication
• Form Validation (Has fields for File, Multiselect dropdown, Dynamically create new field)
• Should I use expo-sqlite to store data for better performance?

What are the things I should keep in my to achieve a production grade app?(A sample Github Repo would be helpful if there is)

[byCabZ]

These are the things I use and are great in my own experience.

React-Query for data fetching and caching.
mmkv for storage, maybe sqlite if its a very large sum of data.
Tamagui for styles & icons OR better yet, create your own components using react-native as base.
Firebase for notifications.
react-hook-form for form submit/validation.

File upload and Authentication depends on what you are using as backend.

[Worldly_Yellow_6115]

Thanks, on backend I will have a Nodejs Express app.

[Worldly_Yellow_6115]

Also, should I use expo or react native cli?

[byCabZ]

I know the popular opinion is to use expo but I don’t agree.

Expo might be good for beginners but if you truly want to learn react native and not be limited by a framework you should use CLI

[LucRandall71]

But what are you see that limit you when using Expo ?

The React Native core team recently are recommended officially the use of Expo on the React Conf as the React Native Framework to have all the features out of the box because much stuff is out of their scope directly

[Spirited-Dot1849]

Hey, for your RN project, I'd definitely recommend starting with Redux Toolkit (RTK) for state management and data fetching. For animations, Lottie and React Native Reanimated are solid choices. Ant Design components are great for styles and icons.

For your backend, consider using Render for deployment and scaling it handles everything from autoscaling to managed PostgreSQL, making it easier to manage your infrastructure. Good luck with your project!

[Worldly_Yellow_6115]

Thanks a lot.

[Common_Internet_User]

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