expo/create-react-native-app Alternatives

React Native app scaffolding / project generation

Deprecated Expo tool for bootstrapping React Native apps across iOS, Android, and web, superseded by create-expo-app.

13.3kJavaScriptBSD-3-Clausedormant · last push 2.3y agoGitHub

Same job, different approach

Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.

react-native-community/templateGitHub

Use with the React Native CLI when you want a bare workflow without Expo.

The React Native Community Template — Get started building RN apps for Android & iOS

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: JavaScript
: MIT

active2mo ago

Older generation, or narrower

An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.

akveo/kittenTricksGitHub

Choose if you want a ready-made multi-screen React Native starter to customize, though unmaintained since 2022.

React Native starter kit with over 40 screens and modern Light and Dark theme for creating stunning cross-platform mobile applications.

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: TypeScript
: MIT

dormant2.6y ago

Listed as an alternative to

These projects were analysed and named create-react-native-app among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how create-react-native-app rates them is a separate judgement, made when create-react-native-app is analysed in its own right.

infinitered/igniteGitHub

calls create-react-native-app “The obsolete predecessor to today's Expo scaffolding tools; use only for historical reference or very simple setups, last updated years ago.”

Infinite Red's battle-tested React Native project boilerplate, along with a CLI, component/model generators, and more! 9 years of continuous development and counting.

19.9kTypeScriptactive

akveo/kittenTricksGitHub

calls create-react-native-app “previous-generation minimal generator; choose it if you want a bare React Native project and plan to add all UI yourself.”

React Native starter kit with over 40 screens and modern Light and Dark theme for creating stunning cross-platform mobile applications.

7.3kTypeScriptdormant