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No more Expo 🙏. Most devs are shocked to realise they can't open or work their apps unless they have an internet connection using Expo. React Native needs an opensource offline first experience like expo. @swmansion.com #expo #reactnative #react

I’m building an offline-first app with Expo and I have no idea what you are referring to

I was referring to devs working with the Expo Go app. Even without that, the --local should be be the default.

You can connect over LAN to Expo Go without a connection to the wider Internet.

This is what i meant. expo start without the --offline flag, the default behaviour is to reach out to api.expo.dev and fail if it can't. While the Expo Go app will freeze up regularly or just won't work sometimes without an internet connection.

To reproduce the error, I intentionally unplugged my wan conn from my router. So I was offline. Other SDKs do similar checks but fail silently. I like using expo, I only wish the offline experience could be better, that's all.