[brokenbyclouds]

Use Expo. Ignore anything that ever mentions having to "eject" because that's the giveaway that the information is hopelessly, uselessly out of date. It's fine.

[hot_gril]

Can you create custom native modules without ejecting now? I see something about using Expo development builds, but that sounds worse.

[thomasmiller_]

There is no need to eject when creating custom modules and the API for writing modules is fairly decent. Not entirely painless but miles better than a vanilla RN approach. We make extensive use of development builds and it's the feature I value the most - no need for Firebase or TestFlight for testing a branch.