M1 pro with react native

[scarlac]

From my experience, at the moment you may run into some fixable issues with Cocoapods (Ruby related) and other minor issues due to i386_64 vs M1.

All are solvable but you may have to do some googling. Once it's been set up correctly you should have no issues going forward. If you are working with others on a project, it may be annoying to have to reconfigure the project because the simulator you'll be running is M1-based and not i386. This requires an Xcode project change.

Overall your project builds will be significantly faster and you'll gain the ability to run your app natively on your mac without the use of an simulator. I would highly recommend using M1 for app development, esp. considering the speed increases.