I am making a Mobile app in React Native with Expo. Now I am thinking that I will use Realm to manage state in my project.
However, I am not sure that I can use Realm on Expo or not. Expo is quite useful to create React Native Mobile Apps easily and quickly, but sometimes there are some conflict with some modules and libraries.
So, could you teach me that Realm can work on Expo or not?
Thank you,
The feature request was marked as Complete today.
I can confirm that Realm works with custom dev clients.
Here is an expo/example you can use to get started today --courtesy of the Realm team.
We won't be adding Realm to the Expo Go app (that you download from the App Store or Google Play Store) since we are limiting the amount of native third-party services that we include by default.
The feature request has been marked it as In Progress by the Expo team.
https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/realm
It should be included as part of a custom development client, you can read more about custom development clients here https://blog.expo.dev/introducing-custom-development-clients-5a2c79a9ddf8
From the realm docs
Expo does not support Realm Unfortunately, Expo does not support Realm. If you use the Expo CLI or create-react-native-app to create your React Native project, you will need to "eject" your Expo project to use Realm. The installation steps on this page do not use the Expo CLI.
https://docs.mongodb.com/realm/sdk/react-native/install/
It has been a feature request for expo since 2017 https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/support-for-realm
Yes, Expo now has a way of doing this using Custom Dev clients. Here is an example app from the Realm team.
https://github.com/expo/examples/tree/master/with-realm
You can also see this request is marked as complete on the Expo feature request site. https://expo.canny.io/feature-requests/p/realm
