Started with official documentation of React Native.

Expo Go

Problem 1:

Network Response Timeout Error.

Googled - found that had to change connection from LAN to tunnel: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43593042/network-response-time-out-error-create-react-native-app-expo

npx expo start --tunnel

Saw that solution was to toggle this on a UI - but didnt find the UI (Metro UI)

Problem 2:

The Metro UI would not open in Browser.

Found the reason: https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/19069

The Web UI was deprecated a while back. Please read the full announcement in this blog post: https://blog.expo.dev/sunsetting-the-web-ui-for-expo-cli-ab12936d2206