Instead of a fetch() call to get the startup config, let's load the JSON file using ES import syntax. (Rename the file to startupConfig.default.json in the process, get rid of the .sample)
While here, we can tidy this code with async/await instead of promises.
I also noticed that this function doesn't return the consent status; returning it simplifies every place where this is invoked.

instead of using fetch() we can use ES import here. Need to rename to *.json, so calling it label-options.default.json

Two versions of the demographics surveys are kept locally in e-mission-phone
import them using ES import syntax instead of using fetch()

New configuration for the repo– when using package.expo.json, we can serve the code as an expo web app

I created a setup_expo script, similar to the other setup_* scripts to enable package.expo.json.
Since the 'expo' configuration does not have a config.xml file, I modified configure_xml_and_json.js to ignore the xml file if it is not present

Metro is like the React Rative ecosystem's version of webpack.
Just like we tell webpack to ignore libxslt in webpack.config.js, we must also tell Metro to ignore it in metro.config.js

The entry point for the Cordova app is index.js, which uses react-native-web to createRoot on the #appRoot element of index.html

The entry point for an Expo app will be App.tsx (defined in app.json)

As such, a few things need to be moved around – index.js should have nothing except the createRoot business, and App.tsx should contain everything needed for the app including Providers, SafeAreaView wrapper, etc.

To account for Cordova plugins not being available, we can leverage the mocks we have been using for testing; they are basically just minimal JS versions of the plugins (ie using localStorage instead of native DB storage, fetch instead of the ServerCommunication plugin, etc). We'll apply these mocks (in expoCompat.ts) if we detect that we are running in Expo web

useAppConfig
cordova has a 'deviceready' event that we listen for before we can retrieve the config. Expo does not have this event, so we need to check IS_EXPO and only await if IS_EXPO is false

usePermissionStatus
We will not be needing any permission-enabled functionality on the Expo web version. We can add a usePermissionStatus.web.ts that will automatically be used in place of usePermissionStatus.ts for Expo web, and it has an empty `checkList` so no permissions will be requested.

pushNotifySettings
Similarly, we do not need push notifications on the web version, so we will export a function that does nothing from pushNotifySettings.web.ts

Expo includes this font by default, but we do still need to include it in index.js for the Cordova configuration or the icons become blank