React Native Cookbook - Second Edition

Using a pure React Native app (React Native CLI)

Assuming you've followed the introduction to this chapter, you should already have the React Native CLI installed globally. If not, go ahead and do so now with npm:

npm install -g react-native-cli

To create a new pure React app with the CLI, we'll use the following command:

 react-native init NativeBase

This creates a new pure React Native app in a folder called NativeBase in the current directory. The next step is to install the required peer dependencies. Let's cd into the new NativeBase directory and install the native-base package using npm:

npm install native-base --save

Alternatively, you can use yarn:

yarn add native-base

Finally, we will install the Native dependencies with the following ...