expo/detox-expo-helpers

detox-expo-helpers

Utilities for using detox in your Expo/Create React Native App apps.

Use it

Install it

yarn add detox-expo-helpers -D
 # or
npm i detox-expo-helpers --save-dev

Also, declare expo-detox-hooks in your project's package.json.

Set up detox on your project

Follow the steps in the detox Getting Started guide.

Download the Expo app to some directory in your project and configure in package.json

You can download the Expo app from the Expo Tools page. See an example package.json configuration

Use detox-expo-helpers in your app

All you really need to use is reloadApp, like so: https://github.com/expo/with-detox-tests/blob/master/e2e/firstTest.spec.js#L1-L6

Example app

Try out an example app with this already configured at https://github.com/expo/with-detox-tests