Expo and react-native-firebase

Question

I'm trying to integrate Firebase into my expo app using the react-native-firebase framework which has several advantages over the regular firebase package when it comes to react-native apps.

However, I'm running into difficulties since the instructions say I must add the GoogleService-Info.plist to ios/[YOUR APP NAME]/GoogleService-Info.plist, and expo apps don't have an ios folder from what I understand.

Am I pretty much screwed or is there a solution for this?

Answer 1

It's in progress --

https://blog.expo.io/using-firebase-in-expo-e13844061832

Using Firebase in Expo And how we plan on adding it to the client 😁 We are super excited to announce that we will be rolling out a suite of Unimodules that will provide you with easy access to native Firebase features! initially you will only be able to use these in a detached ExpoKit App. But over time we will be working to add these to vanilla Expo.

TL;DR
Here are the modules, you will need to detach to add them for now:

• App/Core
• Analytics
• Authentication
• Cloud Firestore
• Cloud Functions
• Instance ID
• Performance Monitor
• Realtime Database
• Cloud Storage
• Remote Config
• Firebase Cloud Messaging
• Remote Notifications
• Dynamic Linking
• Invites
• Crashlytics

Also TL;DR
Here is a boilerplate: https://github.com/EvanBacon/expo-native-firebase