Getting started with React Native with Expo

Zhijia Hu

Jan 5, 2025 — 1 min read

It has been almost 5 years since the last post! Covid happened and I have 2 kids now.

I'll talk about my recent experience on developing a react native app using expo.

npx expo start --localhost

Super important command to start debugging locally. Had been running into errors where it complains The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection

Now at least I can see the app running properly on both iOS simulator and web. The challenge now is to integrate Auth0 into it.

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