Notes on sharing React Native project code between my Win 11 desktop PC and old Win 10 mini Laptop
Last updated on 5 Jun 2025 I recently upgraded Node on both my Windows 11 desktop PC (DPC) and old low-config Windows 10 Dell Mini Laptop (DML) to v22.16.0. I wanted to have same Node version on both the computers. DPC earlier had Node v22.13.1. DML seems to have had much older Node (probably v20.x.x). I then copied over all files of a Timestamp React native and Expo project which works with Expo Go from DPC to DML (using WiFi transfer of zip file of the project). The project folder size was around 205 MB (including node_modules) (zip file was around 66 MB). The code was working for both web and Android using Expo Go on DPC. The code ran right away on DML too (with npm run start)! I tested it (DML project) both on web and Android using Expo Go. Note that on DML I cannot run Android Emulator as it is too low-config for that. But I could use Expo Go on my Samsung Android phone and run the Timestamp app running (perhaps I should say being bundled, to be more accurate) on DM...