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Second, sharing code with other projects (e.g., backend code, web apps) may get complicated. Out-of-the-box, React Native's metro bundler cannot reference code outside of the project's root directory. You can configure it to do so (and we'll do it as well later on). Still, once you do it, you'll also need to ensure dependencies resolution works correctly (to avoid loading two different versions of the same library, for example); which might not be as easy as it may sound.
Last, because you're supporting multiple platforms in a single directory, it's easy to end up with confusing indirections and branches in platform-specific files. This may be just a "me" thing, but I find it hard to navigate around configuration files of projects that support multiple platforms. At first glance, it may look like all platforms use the same configuration files. But once you dig a bit deeper, you realize that each platform requires some ad-hoc tweaks to the configuration files (for Metro, Babel, Webpack, etc.). Want an example from a codebase I wrote? Check out Ordinary Puzzles, which is a mobile, web, and Electron app. It's not easy to understand what files are used by which platform (e.g., what platform build phase is using babel.config.js?)
This nohoist section will tell Yarn that the listed dependencies (specified as glob patterns) should be installed in the node_modules directory of each package instead of the root project's one. For now, I just added react, react-dom, and react-native:
react and react-dom because once we start supporting the React Native for Web, it will be easy to get into a state where the app crashes because different versions of React are loaded on the page.
Please notice that I'm focusing on Yarn Workspaces just because it's the tool I'm most familiar with. You can achieve similar results with pnpm and nx.