Setting up our project

React Native has a very powerful CLI that we will need to install to get started with our project. To install, just run the following command in your command line (you might need to run this with sudo), if you don't have enough permissions:

npm install -g react-native-cli

Once the installation is finished, we can start using the React Native CLI by typing react-native. To start our project, we will run the following command:

react-native init --version="0.49.3" GroceriesList

This command will create a basic project named GroceriesList with all the dependencies and libraries you need to build the app on iOS and Android. Once the CLI has finished installing all the packages, you should have a folder structure similar ...

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