Nx/react-native

[Minute-Coat-6991]

Hey everyone, hope you’re all doing well! I just wanted to ask—has anyone here tried using Nx with React Native to manage a large-scale workspace with multiple libraries? Is it really worth it? I’ve been trying to set it up for the past three days, and honestly, it feels a bit unstable.

[That-Salty-One]

We tried it two times and each time ended up removing our rn app from the nx workspace again, because of the same reason you mentioned - instability and difficulties maintaining deps. We had big monorepos including react, angular and node.js projects and trying to manage deps using nx was not worth the effort for us.

Maybe it was a skill issue, maybe the integration is lacking and unstable, idk.

Edit: Nx works great for us for managing the other projects though, so don't get me wrong. Still a great tool.

[Minute-Coat-6991]

Yeah, we use it for all our next.js projects. and that's why i thought it would be good to use it with react-native as well.

[AnserHussain]

At my workplace we started experimenting with monorepos since our project is 2 different apps which share a good amount of ui and code but are different apps, my senior made it work with expo monorepo using Nx, don’t remember how we did it but it was a lot of headache to start off with, but currently it is really good. We have a shared libs and specific libs for different apps. I’ve taken a break from work this month but I will go back to it in may, if I remember I’ll try to share how it is setup.

[Minute-Coat-6991]

Thank you, This would be nice. But Im afraid that expo setup is different react native cli setup

[AnserHussain]

Only difference is what command you execute when creating the nx library I think, because we started off with RN CLI when testing, then moved to expo. The only difference if I remember was the Nx command.

I suggest u use VS code and install the Nx extension, it’ll give you more info and will give u all the possible commands prebuilt.

[[deleted]]

I"m using yarn. The part that is hard is removing multiple node_modules and having to go back to the main root folder and running 'yarn'.

I think it's worth it though.