Create your first react native app with expo as a beginner.

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In this post I will tell you how you can create your first React Native app with expo-cli.

As an advocate for cross platform development I am going to create a series of posts on React Native mobile app development and this post is a part of it.

Go to the app store in your mobile and download the expo app with the link given below,

Expo app link

After downloading it sign-up/sign-in into the app.

Then go to your terminal in your laptop and install expo-cli globally like below,


npm install -g expo-cli

Then create your react-native-app with,


expo init projectname

It will take some time to install all the dependencies.

Now after installing an expo app, cd into your project folder.

cd project

Then run any one of the command given below based on your phone's operating system,

npm run android

npm run ios

After you run any one of the above commands, you will be redirected to a page like below.

You can either scan the QR code shown in the redirected with your expo app in your phone or plugin your mobile phone in to your laptop with an usb cable and the app will be built on your mobile and will display the app.js content in it.

And that's how easy it is to create a react native mobile app with expo and build it on to your mobile.

In my next post I will discuss about the React Native elements like View, Text etc.,