Expo 53: @config-plugins/react-native-branch 10.0.0 breaks iOS build

[davidavz]

Summary

With the documented Expo 53 setup (react-native-branch 6.6.0 + @config-plugins/react-native-branch 10.0.0), expo prebuild generates an iOS AppDelegate.swift that fails to compile with cannot find type 'RCTBridge' in scope. Expected behavior: the documented version combination should generate native iOS code that builds successfully.

Config Plugin

@config-plugins/react-native-branch

What platform(s) does this occur on?

iOS

SDK Version

53

Reproducible demo

A minimal repro can be created from a fresh Expo SDK 53 app by installing react-native-branch@6.6.0 and @config-plugins/react-native-branch@10.0.0, adding the Branch config plugin to app.config.ts, then running expo prebuild -p ios followed by expo run:ios. The generated ios/<AppName>/AppDelegate.swift contains sourceURL(for bridge: RCTBridge) and the iOS build fails with cannot find type 'RCTBridge' in scope.