JSJules Sarahinjulessarah.hashnode.dev·3h ago · 8 min readWhy Vibe-Coded Apps Get Rejected (and How to Ship Them Anyway)An AI coding agent can take you from an idea to a working React Native app in a weekend. It compiles, it runs on your phone, and it does what you asked. Then you press Submit, wait a day, and get a re00
JSJules Sarahinjulessarah.hashnode.dev·3h ago · 8 min readNative Sign in with Apple and Google in Expo + Supabase: The Parts the Quickstarts SkipSocial login is the fastest way into most consumer apps: one tap, a system sheet, done. With Expo and Supabase, the core of it is a single call, supabase.auth.signInWithIdToken(). Getting from that ca00
HRHugo Rusinhugorus.hashnode.dev·3h ago · 7 min readStop Rebuilding What Didn't Change: Fingerprint-Driven EAS Workflows for Expo AppsMost Expo teams run a full native build on every merge. A typo fix in a screen component triggers 15 minutes of iOS compilation, a build credit, and a new binary that's identical to the last one excep00
SSophieinaidesigntech.hashnode.dev·4h ago · 9 min readYour SDKs Fill In the Privacy Form, Not You: A Data Safety Audit for Expo AppsI build apps for clients, mostly small businesses that want an iOS and Android app and have never opened App Store Connect or Play Console. The code is rarely what slows a launch down. The privacy pap00
SSarahinsarah-dyne.hashnode.dev·4h ago · 18 min readExpo Push Notifications in React Native: The Production Guide the Quickstart SkipsThe official quickstart gets a test notification onto your phone in about twenty minutes. Then you ship, and the problems start quietly: half your Android users never see the permission prompt, tokens00
CFChris F Ainapplighter.hashnode.dev·4h ago · 10 min readThe 7 Bugs AI Agents Keep Shipping in React Native Apps (and the Guardrails That Catch Them)I review a lot of pull requests that an AI agent wrote. Some come from Claude Code, some from Cursor, some from a teammate who pasted a ChatGPT answer and pressed save. On React Native projects, the c00
FMFamitha M Ainfami-blog.hashnode.dev·5h ago · 7 min readPush Notifications in Expo: The Full Path from Token to TapPush notifications are usually the last feature on the list and the one that takes longest to get right. Getting the screens and API working can take a couple of weeks. Then push alone can eat another00
CChloeinsmithchloe.hashnode.dev·5h ago · 8 min readFile-Based Routing in React Native: A Practical Guide to Expo RouterIf you've ever wired up React Navigation by hand, you know the drill: define a stack, nest a tab navigator inside it, register every screen, then keep that config in sync with your folder structure fo00
CChloeinsmithchloe.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 13 min readBuild vs Buy a Mobile App in 2026: An Economics FrameworkEvery founder I talk to can tell me what a mobile app will cost to build. Almost none of them can tell me what it will cost to own for three years. That gap — between the sticker price and the real ec00
SSarahinsarah-dyne.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 7 min readBuild vs Buy a Boilerplate: What Your React Native Starter Actually CostsEvery React Native project starts with the same decision: build your own boilerplate, or begin from one that already exists. This guide walks through what a production-ready Expo boilerplate contains,00
