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there's a lot of exciting things going on in SDK 54, but the less exciting changes will hopefully make your upgrade smoother and your everyday DX with dependencies more stable 💕 All kinds of reliability improvements land in SDK 54! small thread about those 🧵

a lot of implicit deps chains are fixed. One example, if something else depends on Metro that won't break Expo in any case anymore (Pictured: @expo/metro-config's deps graph. And yes, we're also working on reducing deps continuously, more news on that soon)

we also fixed some trickier edge cases, for example: - the fallback resolver means some implicit shared deps are automatically fixed up in our Metro builds (e.g. expo-asset) - a new "supervisor worker" makes sure custom transformers can't break deps chains either github.com/expo/expo/bl...

Autolinking will also work much more like "what you see is what you get" with transitive linking for RN modules, better duplicate detection, better hoisting conflict detection, etc this also means we can safely expand our official package manager support!

there's also an experiment that allows you to auto-resolve issues with duplicate native module dependencies or hoisting conflicts (monorepos rejoice!) ✨ flip one flag, and Expo Autolinking also applies its autolinking decisions to Expo's metro bundling

no more metro conflicts, metro config conflicts, expo deps conflicts, react package conflicts, babel conflicts, native module conflicts, ... full write up of how we got here in this blog post: kitten.sh/blog/autolin...

The first thing I hit going from 53 (with almost no other dependencies installed) to 54 was a load of react peer deps errors :(