AUTOLINKING'S BROKEN PROMISE

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Dependency management is complex in Expo and React Native apps, partly due to the "broken promise" of autolinking to simplify native module dependencies. Expo SDK 54 has several fixes, including direct Metro dependencies, removing implicit dependencies, consistent autolinking, and a CLI fallback resolver, to address these challenges and support various package managers and monorepos. The updated autolinking system now discovers transitive dependencies, allowing `expo-doctor` to proactively report duplicate modules and potential conflicts for developers to resolve.