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In theory, it seems you should be able to use Ignite and its boilerplates with create-react-native-app by executing:

ignite attach
ignite add ir-boilerplate

And then copying the boilerplate application code into the project directory.

Now that create-react-native-app is tightly coupled with Expo, this doesn't work as expected. The Ignite code causes all kinds of errors within the Expo framework. From my reading, it seems the Ignite dependencies conflict with what is provided by Expo.

One lone soldier hacked together a solution to the Expo conflicts, but this was done just for Expo and not create-react-native-app. Also I'd obviously prefer a more supported solution.

So... has anyone gotten the Ignite boilerplate running within the new create-react-native-app which integrates with Expo?

If that isn't feasible, what would you recommend? I think it's safe to assume that Ignite will have to be updated to support Expo, especially now that it is ingrained in create-react-native-app. If I develop using Ignite today, will I be able to migrate my work into the create-react-native-app framework when Ignite supports it?

Thanks!

Evgenii Zhuravlev
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$ ignite new MyLatestCreation -b ignite-expo

(according to GitHub thread: https://github.com/infinitered/ignite/issues/1008)

Innovate
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Hi, mate! I'd recommend you this boilerplate to integrate expo with ignite: https://github.com/skellock/expo-with-ignite

Mihai Moraru
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    It will be highly appreciated if you please us provide a small documentation to convert the existing ignite project to expo. – bashIt Sep 09 '17 at 08:08
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For easy reference: this command will get you a ignite-expo boiler template 

ignite new MyLatestCreation -b ignite-expo

report any issues here

Zumo
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yes ignite it works with expo for react native apps you should use this command line

npx ignite-cli new PizzaApp -b bowser --expo to run new project using ignite browser for more information and how to work with it you can check my github readme for my first project using ignite [ignite]https://github.com/HAFDIAHMED/Ignite_first_app

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