Running Expo offline

Offline Expo:

I wanted to continue working on my expo project on my laptop while no wifi was present.   It was very hard to find information on how to do get it running, or if it was even possible.

Finally found the 2 magic commands!

This command will start the offline server.   No login required.

exp start --offline

This command will start the app in a running android emulator.

exp android --offline

To make this even easier (and so I didn't have to remember the commands) I just added them to my scripts in package.json

"scripts": {

"server": "exp start --offline",

"emulator": "exp android --offline"

}

Then I just run on one terminal:

npm run emulator

And in another terminal:

npm run server

Documentation:
To get the full offline experience, I also downloaded react-native, react-native-elements and expo from github so I can access the docs offline!   The gh-pages branch in react-native and react-native-elements contain the doc files, though the links won't work, so you have to browse to them manually.   Still better than no docs at all!