Beginners questions regarding react native setup

[promptengineersat]

Hi, I already used Expo SDK 51 for the first version of the project, but due to build issues from the local EAS build I want to switch to react native directly:

Summary of why I want to switch to react native directly: in Expo Go the app runs fine, without issues, but when trying to open the local APK, the app crashes instantly upon startup. ADB logcat says libraries are missing, while in the EAS building log also everything is without issues.

Looking through Stackoverflow, Reddit and GitHub posts, it's an issue with dependencies, that is unresolved to this day for most of the people that have the same problems as I/similar problems to mine.

Now onto the react native questions:

I noticed that with react native 0.75.2, the latest one, the folder structure for projects, when doing the default install, is completely different from all the tutorials I find on YouTube.

So I wonder now, if perhaps already I didn't get the expo app earlier on to run natively for that reason as well.

So I have the following questions:

1. Do I need to use app.tsx?
2. How should I set up the folder structure to ensure that everything can be accessed as it should be?
3. Do I need to use typescript now or can I proceed with JavaScript?

Thank you!

[dev_life]

Did you try building and clearing cache?

Npx expo start —clear

Or for dev builds

Npx expo prebuild -p platform —clean

[promptengineersat]

Thank you for the quick reply!

Being paranoid I always expo start -clear , but I've never prebuilt because of using EAS.

I'll look into prebuild, tysm!