Title: I revisited an old React Native project with a view to make a new, updated refresh.<p>React Native is great; React Native firebase is great; Firebase is great; Apple is great.<p>Getting an app published that depends on all these to work together is an absolute nightmare.<p>Just installing it is now a walk through a minefield of errors - is your mac an M1? There are dozens of different recipes to follow for a maddening mix of how to install different versions of ruby, of cocoapods, with homebrew or not, with the arm terminal or rosetta emulator.<p>Maybe I was naive to expect that after a couple of years things would have just gotten <i>easier</i> or <i>faster</i>.<p>After a day spent 99% on just setup and getting a generic app to <i>not break</i>, before even touching a line of code to make a feature, I have quit.<p>I wonder if others feel this way? I&#x27;m sad because I like app development, and the idea of building for multiple platforms. And I previously invested a lot in learning and supporting RN but the balkanization of this platform has reached the tipping point for me.
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