Yeah I’m getting my Swift skills ready for when that lands…

Samuel 11 Nov 2023

I wish this was possible in React Native 😭

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hailey 11 Nov 2023

In the nearish future it will be. Expo modules are slated to *soon* support SwiftUI.

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Samuel

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Yeah I’m getting my Swift skills ready for when that lands :)

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦11 Nov 2023

Ooh, that sounds nice

hailey 11 Nov 2023

I've been playing with them for a bit now, mainly through submitting expo SDK PRs. Being able to add native code using Swift or Kotlin over....😬obj-c....is awesome. Once the SwiftUI support lands (hopefully SDK 50?) things will be great!

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Samuel 11 Nov 2023

I’m so hyped! Gonna cull so many shitty js-based dependencies :)

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦11 Nov 2023

I mean, I'm pretty sure it was possible to use Swift for years, just not SwiftUI? 😅 I wrote a Swift module for RN for a friend's company a while ago

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hailey 11 Nov 2023

Oh yea, it’s been possible. But the expo-modules API simplifies things considerably, and is renderer agnostic so you support fabric out of the box.

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hailey 11 Nov 2023

Actually seeing a lot of libraries convert to using expo modules over trying to maintain both JSI support and turbo/fabric.