React Native app creating CLI

React Native projects initializing CLI, that has been extracted from the official @react-native-community/cli package.

This CLI is independent of react-native and @react-native-community/cli, it just process React Native templates only.

Usage (with npx)

npx react-native-init [options] <projectName>

Initialize a new React Native project named <projectName> in a directory of the same name.

If you have both yarn and npm installed, this CLI will always try to use yarn. You can force usage of npm by adding --npm flag to the command.

Options

--version <string>

Shortcut for --template react-native@version.

--directory <string>

Uses a custom directory instead of <projectName>.

--title <string>

Uses a custom app title instead of <projectName>.

--package-name <string>

Create project with custom package name for Android and bundle identifier for iOS. The correct package name should:

• Contain at least two segments separated by dots, e.g. com.example
• Contain only alphanumeric characters and dots

--skip-install

Skip dependencies installation

--npm

Force use of npm during initialization

--template <string>

Uses a custom template. It should point to a valid package that can be installed with yarn or npm.

The most common options are:

• Full npm package name
• Absolute path to directory containing template
• Absolute path to a package tarball created using npm pack
• Link to a GitHub repository (supports username/repo#branch format)

Example:

npx react-native-init MyApp --template [email protected]
npx react-native-init MyApp --template file:///Users/name/template-path
npx react-native-init MyApp --template file:///Users/name/template-name-1.0.0.tgz
npx react-native-init MyApp --template thachnn/react-native-template#v0.71.4

A template is any directory or npm package that contains a template.config.js file in the root:

module.exports = {
  // Placeholder used to rename and replace in files package.json, index.json, android/, ios/
  placeholderName: 'ProjectName',
  // Placeholder used to rename app title inside values.xml and Info.plist
  titlePlaceholder: 'Project Display Name',
  // Directory with the template which will be copied and processed by this CLI
  templateDir: './template',
  // Path to script, which will be executed after initialization process
  postInitScript: './script.js',
};

You can find example custom template here.

License

Everything inside this repository is MIT licensed.