Using SQLite in Expo for Offline React Native Apps

Forbes Lindesay
ITNEXT
5 min readFeb 24, 2020

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One of the biggest things that determines whether an app “feels” native is how fast it is. A lot of making an app feel fast is about optimising key hot code paths and having the right animations, but for most apps there will be at least some parts of the app that involve reading and writing data.

Whilst it is becoming rarer for a user to be fully offline, it’s still really…

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