React Native CLI

Command line tools that ship with react-native in form of the @react-native-community/cli package.

It exposes react-native binary, so you can call yarn react-native or npx react-native directly from your project.

Note: CLI has been extracted from core react-native as a part of "Lean Core" effort. Please read this blog post for more details.

Contents

• Compatibility
• Documentation
• About
• Creating a new React Native project
• Usage in an existing React Native project
• Updating the CLI
• Maintainers
• License

Compatibility

Our release cycle is independent of react-native. We follow semver and here is the compatibility table:

@react-native-community/cli	react-native
^12.0.0	^0.73.0
^11.0.0	^0.72.0
^10.0.0	^0.71.0
^9.0.0	^0.70.0
^8.0.0	^0.69.0
^7.0.0	^0.68.0
^6.0.0	^0.65.0,^0.66.0,^0.67.0
^5.0.0	^0.64.0
^4.0.0	^0.62.0,^0.63.0
^3.0.0	^0.61.0
^2.0.0	^0.60.0
^1.0.0	^0.59.0

Documentation

• configuration
• commands
• plugins
• init
• autolinking

About

This monorepository contains tools and helpers for React Native projects in form of a Command Line Tool (or CLI). This CLI is used directly by the react-native package and is not intended for use directly. We update it independently of React Native itself.

Creating a new React Native project

Run the following command in your terminal prompt:

npx react-native@latest init MyApp

Usage in an existing React Native project

Once you're inside an existing project, a local react-native binary will be available for you to use. Feel free to use Yarn to call it directly.

Example running start command in terminal:

yarn react-native start
# or:
npx react-native start

You can also add npm scripts to call it with whichever package manager you use:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-native start"
  }
}

Updating the CLI

[!INFO] Please do it only if you need to. We don't recommend updating CLI independently of react-native as it may cause unexpected issues.

React Native CLI is a dependency of react-native, which makes it a transitive dependency of your project. You can overwrite the version independently of react-native by using resolutions field in your package.json:

{
  "resolutions": {
    "@react-native-community/cli": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-clean": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-config": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-debugger-ui": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-doctor": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-hermes": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-platform-android": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-server-api": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-tools": "VERSION",
    "@react-native-community/cli-types": "VERSION"
  }
}

Maintainers

• Adam Trzciński (@adamTrz) - Callstack
• Michał Pierzchała (@thymikee) - Callstack

Previously:

• Mike Grabowski (@grabbou) - Callstack
• Kacper Wiszczuk (@esemesek)

License

Everything inside this repository is MIT licensed.