create-react-native-app

This repository is deprecated and the README is a brief notice directing users elsewhere.

Create React Native App was a command-line tool that helped developers start new mobile app projects using React Native. React Native is a framework maintained by Meta that lets you write JavaScript code once and run it on both iOS and Android phones. A scaffolding tool like this one handles the initial project setup, creating the folder structure and configuration files so you can start writing your app code right away without spending time on boilerplate.

Expo, the company that built and maintained this tool, has replaced it with a newer package called create-expo-app. The README contains only a deprecation notice and the commands to use the replacement. Users can start a new project with npm, bun, pnpm, or yarn using the new package name. A help flag is available to list all available options.

The README does not describe any features of the original tool or explain why it was replaced. It is a short redirect page with no historical documentation, setup instructions, or code examples. Anyone arriving at this repository looking for a way to start a React Native project is told simply to use the newer tool.

React Native development at this point is generally done through a framework, and the official React Native documentation also recommends this. The original create-react-native-app approach predated the current recommended way of working, which centers on Expo or similar frameworks that provide more structure out of the box.