Using Ignite with create-react-native-app

Question

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!

Answer 1

$ ignite new MyLatestCreation -b ignite-expo

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