I work from Vancouver, Canada but most of the team is in Palo Alto, California. My work day is a little different from theirs so I'll have to let someone else speak to this ;)

Yes, if you are based in USA then take a look at http://expo.io/jobs

react-native-gesture-handler - great gestures have never been so easy. react-native-vector-icons - of course react-native-animatable - super simple to drop in animations react-native-paper - still early for this but I'm excited for it! react-native-camera - we re-built this for Expo and people liked it so they pulled the native code out of Expo and into this library react-native-tab-view - excellent gl-react - it's good plenty more that I haven't listed here!

Three months is a lot of time! There aren't too many changes on each release, and many are just handled upstream in React Native for us. It really depends on the types of changes. For example, navigation related changes need to be handled in react-navigation.

There's a lot of discussion around this here: https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/native-plugins It's not clear to me what this would look like in practice. We have been considering making it possible to inject plugins in the build step (exp build:ios/android), but not the Expo client.

Yes this is possible with Expo! The native builds run on our servers, so when you run exp build:ios it builds your JS bundle and asset manifest, uploads them both to CloudFront, then kicks off a build job on MacStadium. When it's done, you can download the binary and upload it to iTunes (it may be possible to upload without a Mac, I am not entirely sure). This is only needed when you're ready to ship to the App Store, and before that the workflow is no different between a Mac and Windows when using Expo. Read more about this in our docs: https://docs.expo.io/versions/latest/distribution/index.html Using React Native without Expo, you can't really build for iOS without some likely painstaking workarounds involving provisioning your own mac cloud instance.

Hi Jake! How are features picked? We pay close attention to the feature requests: https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests. In addition to that, we conduct user interviews frequently, speak to businesses who may be interested in using it or who are using it, participate in hackathons, and we build apps with Expo ourselves to get a feel for what we think it needs. How do you discuss problems as a team? This is a tough question to answer! Not sure I can give a concise answer to this, sorry :( What other services do you use? Amplitude Segment Google Cloud Slack Dropbox Paper Canny Circle CI Buildkite GitHub (of course) waffle.io Twilio DoorDash :P Lyft Plenty of others..

Hi José! Yes we are planning on that. See my reply to Chris in https://hashnode.com/ama/with-expo-team-cjdqxyifm04hwt3wt80z47mf7#cjdum1yct02ism3wt65416ysk We've been working on infrastructure and refactoring necessary to support "optional modules" -- this would allow you to selectively opt in and out of APIs to include in your standalone app. We'd also let you select which versions of the Expo SDK to include -- usually this would just be the one version that you're using.

Hi Chris! Yes, this can absolutely be solved. We've been working on infrastructure and refactoring necessary to support "optional modules" -- this would allow you to selectively opt in and out of APIs to include in your standalone app. We'd also let you select which versions of the Expo SDK to include -- usually this would just be the one version that you're using. More info on versions in this reply: https://hashnode.com/ama/with-expo-team-cjdqxyifm04hwt3wt80z47mf7#cjdulxcq00579z0wufh2exvby

Hi Andrés! We're considering this. I am personally (not speaking for the team) not convinced that we need it, and I do not like having to integrate native APIs that are specific to a particular vendor (when we can avoid it). That said, there is clearly a lot of demand for Firebase (as per https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests). You can use the JS SDK for the database, authentication, and very shortly for storage (this will be available in March).