can I develop react-native app inside docker image

Question

My development machine is MacBook Pro, on which I'm trying to create a docker image based on Ubuntu 16.04 for developing React-Native apps. I'm aware I can install react native, android, cli etc directly on Mac but I'm trying to avoid, as docker is better for porting code easily using git CI/CD pipeline as well as maintaining packages etc versions.

I couldn't find any decent workable solution, few URLs that I referred are given below for your reference.

1. https://medium.com/@hmajid2301/running-expo-react-native-in-docker-ff9c4f2a4388
2. https://github.com/react-native-community/docker-android/blob/master/Dockerfile
3. https://github.com/symbiote/docker-project/blob/master/node/Dockerfile

My Dockerfile is as following at the moment, its building the image but Expo app doesn't seem to open my react native app runing.

FROM node:8.11

RUN npm install -g grunt-cli \
    && npm install -g brunch \
    && npm install -g bower \
    && npm install -g yarn \
    && npm install -g create-react-native-app \
    && npm install -g react-native-cli \ 
    && npm install -g expo-cli 
EXPORT 3000 19000 19001

CMD ["/bin/bash"]

Has anyone successfully setup Docker image for development of react native mobile apps? If yes, please share your knowledge.

Thanks.

Solution

I know its an old post but might help some one else.

I managed to run expo-cli in a docker image and do remote development using VS Code. Wrote a blog post explaining the work flow. Can check the post here.

All the docker files are pushed to git.