Project Setup

9 pages in this section.

Learn to set up an Expo app with SDK 57, React Native 0.86.0, and React 19.2.3. Explore 10 examples, including a standard Expo layout.

Basics Project Setup Project Setup

create-expo-app Templates

Choose the right create-expo-app template for your project. Learn about default, tabs, blank-typescript, and bare-minimum options for various use cases.

Project Setup Create Expo App

Folder Structure for Features

Learn to structure your React Native project with feature slices, grouping related code, to improve onboarding and prevent tangled dependencies.

Project Setup Folder Structure Features

Monorepo with Turborepo

Set up a Turborepo monorepo for Expo apps. Share UI packages, ESLint rules, and TypeScript config, and cache lint and typecheck tasks in CI.

Project Setup Monorepo Turborepo

Monorepo with Nx

Project Setup Monorepo Nx Advanced

Shared Packages & Metro Resolution

Project Setup Shared Packages Metro

Multiple Apps in One Repo

Project Setup Multiple Apps One

Project Setup Best Practices

Learn 25 essential best practices for Expo project setup, covering SDK templates, expo-doctor, lockfiles, package.json scripts, and TypeScript config.

Best Practices Summary Project Setup

Project Setup Highlights Summary

A single-page roundup of every highlight bullet from the 8 pages in the Project Setup section, grouped by source page so you can scan all 46 takeaways without opening each article individually.

Highlights Summary Project Setup

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