Installing and using the Expo command-line tool

The Expo command-line tool handles the creation of all of the scaffolding that your project needs to run a basic React Native application. Additionally, Expo has a couple of other tools that make running our app during development nice and straightforward. But first, we need to install the Expo command-line tool:

1. In your command-line terminal, type in the following command:

   npm install -g expo-cli

2. Once this installation is complete, you'll have a new expo command available on your system. To start a new project, we can run the expo init command, as follows:

   expo init my-project

3. In this case, the name of the project that will be created is my-project. Next, the process will ask you about your project. You should see something like this in your terminal:

   ? Choose a template: ' - Use arrow-keys. Return to submit.
       ----- Managed workflow -----
      blank - a minimal app as clean as...