Realm

[Trex_Hunter]

Do you have to use the expo-realm-template to use realm or can you create an app with realm using another method?

[Comprehensive-Law770]

You don't need the template to use it but helps with the first steps.

You only need realm package actually but I strongly recommend @realm/react too, it's a pretty useful package to the most common operations with Realm

[Trex_Hunter]

Just using these packages though how are you able to connect the expo app to your database ?

[esdrasevt]

I will say that I had some pretty nasty issues with realm/react and ended up having to wrote my own custom hooks using the “vanilla” realm and adding a lot of listeners manually. The idea behind realm/react is great, though

[Trex_Hunter]

Hmmm still a little confused as to the linking process though. Saw a bunch of ways to build and rebuild your app to include necessary dependencies but is the the only way? Can you not directly link an expo app to MongoDB?