It comes with most important rn packages for developing apps.\nIt's based on Expo v35, react-navigation, jest (unit test - TDD), redux (global state manager), redux-form, etc.
If you need a quickstart for developing a new app, feel free to use our boilerplate.
Redux is used as data storage. It abstracts a database. Redux is a famous paradigm and can be used in other frameworks, like flutter, wordpress, etc. If you are not familiar with Redux, please refer to this link.
React-Navigation is a powerful native solution for app navigations. It suports native behavior on both iOS and Android apps. It suports a good range of navigators: Stack, Tabbar, Drawer, etc.
Expo is a framework built on top of react-native. It makes developing react-native apps much easier.
TDD stands for Test-driven Development. Jest is a node package for creating tests for your code. It comes with 5 unit tests.
Run npm test inside the project to try it out.
ESLint is a tool for finding (and fixing) potencial problems in your code.
Before any commit, or after every new feature, you should run npm run eslint inside the project folder for fixing your code.
It is a tiny package for generating ids for items in your list of objects. You know, json/redux/noSQL structure does not really have autoincremented ids.
If you prefer pure ECMAScript (Javascript), do not worry, you just need to create .js files instead of .ts.
Typescript is a programming language made on top of Javascript. It offers typed primitive variables and objects. It is a typed programming language.
But in the end, Typescript is transpiled (converted) to pure Javascript.