With no need for individual SDKs, ExponentJS looks more approachable for a beginner than "traditional" React Native route. Have any of you given it a spin, yet? If yea, how do you feel about it?
Exponent has been really easy to use for me to get up and running and I'm using it more and more. Pretty much gets all of the tooling out of the way, i.e. xcode and android configuration, and let's you start building real React Native apps quickly. They've been doing a great job of improving the platform, and from what I understand by reading this you can now even easily publish the apps to the app store which is a feature they did not have when they first came out with Exponent if I remember correctly.
Nader Dabit
Web and mobile developer, author, and speaker specialize in cross-platform and cloud-enable application development.
Exponent has been really easy to use for me to get up and running and I'm using it more and more. Pretty much gets all of the tooling out of the way, i.e. xcode and android configuration, and let's you start building real React Native apps quickly. They've been doing a great job of improving the platform, and from what I understand by reading this you can now even easily publish the apps to the app store which is a feature they did not have when they first came out with Exponent if I remember correctly.