Expo API Routes

Expo API Routes is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by coco-research in coco.

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Install Expo API Routes

Copy Expo API Routes into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/coco-research/coco/tree/main/skills/expo-api-routes ~/.claude/skills/expo-api-routes

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/coco-research/coco.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/expo-api-routes/SKILL.md in coco-research/coco
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/expo-api-routes
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 920 skills

What Expo API Routes does

Expo API Routes guides creating server-side API endpoints in Expo Router with EAS Hosting. Use it for secrets, database access, webhooks, validation, and other logic that should run on the server.

Expo API Routes is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Expo API Routes comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents-md, ai, ai-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

When to Use API Routes

Use API routes when you need:

Server-side secrets — API keys, database credentials, or tokens that must never reach the client
Database operations — Direct database queries that shouldn't be exposed
Third-party API proxies — Hide API keys when calling external services (OpenAI, Stripe, etc.)
Server-side validation — Validate data before database writes
Webhook endpoints — Receive callbacks from services like Stripe or GitHub
Rate limiting — Control access at the server level
Heavy computation — Offload processing that would be slow on mobile

When NOT to Use API Routes

Avoid API routes when:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Expo API Routes

What else does coco-research publish alongside Expo API Routes?
Expo API Routes is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from coco-research/coco, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Marketing Videos, AI Product Development and API Design Principles. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Expo API Routes does, and is maintained by coco-research in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the coco-research/coco page.
How does Expo API Routes compare to other DevOps skills?
Expo API Routes ranks #802 by stars among the 920 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Expo API Routes against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.