Creating our first React Native Application

In this recipe, we are going to build a React Native application and understand the main differences between React and React Native.

Getting Ready

To create our new React Native application, we need to install the react-native-cli package:

    npm install -g react-native-cli

How to do it...

Now, to create our first app:

1. Let's do it with this command:

    react-native init MyFirstReactNativeApp

2. After we built our React Native app, we need to install Watchman, which is a file-watching service required by React...