Should I use Expo for expo audio library or React-native-track-player?

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I have my project which I initialised with 'react-native init' . I am thinking of using expo audio library because of it's robust functionalities . But , I have read Expo isn't the solution. It increases the app size. You've to eject it in the end. So can anyone suggest me which woulod be a better solution in this case?

Some of the shortcomings of Expo:

  1. Does not play nicely with Hot reloading
  2. Linking with third party library can be cumbersome sometimes.(Expo include the facebook sdk which is a overhead.)
  3. Poor notification service.
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I had a project first made with expo , then after few time , got to realize the limitations. I would surely say expo is only for learning react native. You should never use expo for production. Here are the few things ive observed which i would like to share :

  1. Expo app size is huge and app becomes very laggy .
  2. You cant use libraries where linking is required and thats a big no no.
  3. You dont have hold over app size bundling , specially in android as you can use a few tweaks like hermes etc to make your app more faster.
  4. And you can always use expo libraries in react native by using https://github.com/unimodules/react-native-unimodules

I would suggest you should use bare react native rather than expo.

Hope it helps . feel free for doubts