Generating the projects

To start building our note taking application for iOS, we are going to need a couple of command-line tools.

• React Native 0.14.2 requires Node.js v4+, we are going to use v5.0.0; visit https://nodejs.org for more information (we recommend managing different node versions with NVM https://github.com/creationix/nvm)
• Install the latest version of NPM from https://www.npmjs.com/

Great, now that we have these tools we can install the react-native-cli. The react-native-cli exposes an interface that does all the work of setting up a new React Native project for us:

1. To install react-native-cli, use the npm command:

   npm install -g react-native-cli
   

2. Next, we are going to generate a new React Native project called ReactNotes using the cli and the react-native init command. The output of the command looks similar to the following:

   $ react-native init ReactNotes
   

   This will walk you through the creation of a new React Native project in /Users/ethanholmes/ReactNotes.

3. Set up a new React...