Skip Recompiling 70+ iOS Packages on Every Build (opens in new tab)

React Native developers know the pain: every clean iOS build recompiles your entire dependency tree from scratch. React Native core, Expo modules, third-party libraries — everything rebuilds, every time. Expo SDK 56 changes this by shipping Expo modules as precompiled XCFrameworks. Your app links these binaries directly instead of rebuilding from source. Clean builds become dramatically faster with zero configuration. This also marks the start of a bigger shift: moving the entire ecosystem fr...