React native workshop

Pre-requisites

Set up the environment:

brew install node
brew install watchman
npm install -g yarn

Then install react native:

npm install -g react-native-cli

To run iOS

You'll need to have a macbook with an up-to-date version of XCode installed.

To run Android

You can run Android on any platform, including Windows and Linux.

Download JDK 8 adn Android studio (make sure you install SDK 9 wheen installing Android studio).

Then add these variables to your .bash_profile:

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/emulator
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools

Does it work?

Check out this repository, install dependencies, and start the app:

git clone git@github.com:codebar/intro-to-react-native.git
cd ./intro-to-react-native
yarn
yarn react-native run-ios (or) yarn react-native run-android

Any issues?