Support for Expo (React Native for web) apps

[EvanBacon]

- Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Feature Request

Now with first-class web support coming to React Native it would be great to have feature detection built into the deployment command.

- What is the current behavior?

• Run expo build:web to generate a static site
• netlify deploy starts the flow
• choose a name
• ? deploy path ( . ) - /web-build

This last step doesn't seem to persist my choice. It'd be cool if it checked to see if the app.json (React Native config file) exists in the root directory, then possibly checks to see if expo.web.build.output is defined (custom output path).

So if /web-build exists and app.json exists you would get the following:

• ? deploy path (web-build)

and if expo.web.build.output is defined you would get that value as the auto suggested path.

How

I'm happy to work on this PR if you guys are interested.

[swyxio]

hey evan! been watching your RN demos and am very excited you are using netlify!

this request is an excellent use case for splitting out detectors from Netlify Dev: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-dev-plugin/tree/master/src/detectors

we have been planning for this to be a standalone, reusable feature anyway and just need some work to take out some netlify dev specific assumptions.

i think i will need to do some heavy lifting to do this "split out project" and will free up after my conf commitments this week. wont need anything from you in the meantime but thanks for the push.

[lupelius]

any news with this?

[swyxio]

no, sorry. i left the company. feel free to open up a new issue/pr