# expo-dev-client

> Expo Development Client

Latest version **57.0.19** (published 2026-09-11) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install expo-dev-client
pnpm add expo-dev-client
yarn add expo-dev-client
bun add expo-dev-client
```

## Health

**Score 75/100 (B)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; no vulnerabilities; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score; popular repo; extremely popular.

Warnings: low downloads; no esm support.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 57.0.19 |
| Published | 2026-09-11 |
| First published | 2021-05-11 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 5 |
| Unpacked size | 55.6 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| GitHub stars | 52197 |
| Author | 650 Industries, Inc. |
| Maintainers | ide, brentvatne, expoadmin, exponent, bycedric, kudochien, alanhughes, tsapeta, expo-bot, philpl, ccheever, wschurman |
| Keywords | react-native, expo, expo-dev-client |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/expo-dev-client
- Repository: https://github.com/expo/expo
- Homepage: https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/dev-client/
- Issues: https://github.com/expo/expo/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/expo-dev-client

## Dependencies (5)

- [expo-dev-menu](https://npm.io/package/expo-dev-menu.md) ~57.0.18
- [expo-manifests](https://npm.io/package/expo-manifests.md) ~57.0.2
- [expo-dev-launcher](https://npm.io/package/expo-dev-launcher.md) ~57.0.20
- [expo-updates-interface](https://npm.io/package/expo-updates-interface.md) ~57.0.2
- [expo-dev-menu-interface](https://npm.io/package/expo-dev-menu-interface.md) ~57.0.0

## Recent versions

- 57.0.19 (latest) — 2026-09-11
- 58.0.2 (next) — 2026-09-15
- 58.0.0-canary-20260909-ea7a89a (canary) — 2026-09-09
- 55.0.40 (sdk-55) — 2026-08-31
- 56.0.26 (sdk-56) — 2026-08-28
- 56.0.17-canary-20260701-9100865 (canary-sdk-56) — 2026-07-01
- 55.0.10-canary-20260429-a5e59cf (canary-sdk-55) — 2026-04-29
- 6.0.21 (sdk-54) — 2026-04-27
- 3.3.9 (sdk-50) — 2024-02-27
- 58.0.1 — 2026-09-14
- 58.0.0 — 2026-09-10
- 58.0.0-canary-20260902-26df09e — 2026-09-02
- 58.0.0-canary-20260901-2164f24 — 2026-09-02
- 57.0.18 — 2026-09-01
- 57.0.17 — 2026-09-01
- … 413 more at https://npm.io/package/expo-dev-client/versions

## README

<p>
  <a href="https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/dev-client/">
    <img
      src="../../.github/resources/expo-dev-client.svg"
      alt="expo-dev-client"
      height="64" />
  </a>
</p>

`expo-dev-client` adds various useful development tools to your debug builds:

- A configurable launcher UI, so you can launch updates (such as from [PR previews](https://docs.expo.dev/develop/development-builds/development-workflows#pr-previews)) and switch between development servers without needing to recompile the native app
- Improved debugging tools (such as support for [inspecting network requests](https://docs.expo.dev/debugging/tools/#inspecting-network-requests))
- [A powerful and extensible developer menu UI](https://docs.expo.dev/debugging/tools#developer-menu)

Expo documentation refers to debug builds that include `expo-dev-client` as [development builds](https://docs.expo.dev/develop/development-builds/introduction/).

## Documentation

You can find more information in the [Expo documentation](https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/dev-client).

## Issues

If you encounter any issues using this package in your project, please [report your issue here](https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/new?template=dev_client_bug_report.yml).

## Contributing

Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the [contributing guide](https://github.com/expo/expo#contributing).

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