expo-dev

The purpose of this repository is to make it easier for people to contribute to Expo.

A small, work in progress, test suite is available in apps/test-suite. It is configured to use the local copy of expo-sdk in libraries/expo-sdk.

An empty project in apps/playground is configured in the same way and is a place for you to experiment with the ipi that you're working on.

Set up

0. First, make sure you have Node >= v7.9.0 installed.
1. Clone this repository git clone git@github.com:expo/expo-dev.git
2. npm install -g hyperinstall
3. Run ./tools/setup -- this will get the latest version of each package, then build and link xdl and start the packager for Expo home.
4. Follow these steps to run the Expo client on Android or these steps to run it on iOS.
5. Once you have the iOS or Android client running, cd into apps/test-suite/__develop__ and run exp start
6. Open the test-suite app using the client that you built.

Note: for CI reasons you need to use the __develop__ directory with test-suite. apps/playground doesn't have a __develop__ directory, run exp start in the project root instead.

Uing our eslint setup

We use prettier with eslint to keep code formatted nicely. The .eslintrc in root is the one we use for every project -- I use Visual Studio Code with the dbaeumer.vscode-eslint plugin and configure it to point to my .eslintrc with:

{
  "eslint.options": {
    "configFile": "/Users/brent/expo-dev/.eslintrc"
  }
}

It's up to you whether you want to format on save or not, but please format JS changes before submitting a PR.

Workflow for writing native APIs

Be sure to have followed the set up steps above before continuing here.

1. Pull the latest version of each submodule git submodule update --init --recursive --remote -- you may need to go into a few --directories and clear the index. Run ./tools/npm-hyperinstall again.
2. Get the client running for the platform that you want to work on.
3. Make native changes in the ios/Exponent/Versioned directory for iOS and android/expoview/src/main/java/versioned directory for Android.
4. Re-build the app and open up playground or test-suite.
5. Make the changes in libraries/expo-sdk to use the native APIs that you exposed before.