I am trying to use Purchases in an expo project.

If I build with xcode, everything is fine. 

However, we rely on the expo development build during development.  Because ain’t nobody got time for xcode. 

If I try to run with the expo dev server (npx expo run:ios) then I get the error  ERROR  Invariant Violation: `new NativeEventEmitter()` requires a non-null argument., js engine: hermes

this happens at the time of import of Purchases (import Purchases from “react-native-purchases”).

I followed the standard installation and usage for expo.

It looks like this might be some sort of incompatibility with  NativeViewGestureHandler because that also starts generating errors only when I try to import Purchases.

Note that I know that purchases probably won’t work in this mode, at least on the simulator, but it shouldn’t crash the app.  That makes for some really challenging dx.