Hello! I’m going to start Babylon React Native and I’m thinking especially about Virtual Reality. But I’m in doubt: does Babylonjs work well with expo or should I use React Native CLI?

There are parts of expo that work with Babylon React Native, but I believe only for asset management. Maybe @ryantrem @Cedric will have more information.

I don’t have any new thoughts or insights beyond what I shared in the thread @bghgary linked above. I expect someone will need to try it and see what can be learned, but so far all the use cases I’m aware of are not expo (just regular RN CLI).

Hi team. I have an existing React Native + Expo project and am also exploring Babylon JS (versus Viro ) for Augmented Reality in my mobile app. ryantrem mentioned in the linked thread: My understanding of Expo is that the native part of the app is basically pre-built from React Native plus a pre-s…

Sounds promising! [image] mkkodia: All native code should be prebuilt and available through a React Native lib (seems to be the case already for Babylon React Native? Yea that’s right, if by Native you mean C++. For each platform, there is also a bit of platform specific glue code that is no…

Thanks for getting back @ryantrem I’m open to making a basic prototype with Expo + RN + BabylonJS just to see if it works- I would probably start with making a custom config plugin in my own project. I am also planning to make a basic prototype with Viro, compare the two and go with whatever one I …

The biggest advantage of Babylon React Native will be if you want to have the same app/experience available in a browser, or if you need low level control of the scene and the rendering details. Otherwise, Viro might work just fine for your scenario. Will be curious to hear about progress on the Exp…

Babylon React Native with expo?

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