Chapter 1

Scaffold + Tour

grit new --mobile and the Expo project layout.

~18 min total3 lessonsAssignment

By the end of this chapter you'll be able to

Scaffold a mobile project
Run on simulator + physical device
Understand the monorepo shape

Lessons

Module: Setup

Scaffolding mobile

The command + flags.

5measy

Expo project tour

app/, components/, hooks/.

7measy

First run

Simulator vs. Expo Go vs. dev build.

6measy

Chapter assignment

Run the scaffold on a real device

Scaffold `my-mobile --mobile`, get it running on either an iOS simulator (macOS) or an Android emulator, AND on a physical device via Expo Go. Screenshot both.

See success criteria

Lesson 1 takes ~5 min.

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ch.2: Shared Types + API Client