React Native version about create-react-app-typescript HOT 7 CLOSED

The React Native setup is fairly minimal anyway once you've spent 18 hours getting Android Studio working (tip: on Windows I was better off using a physical device).

Check out https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Native-Starter which I also wrote if you'd like to get TypeScript wired up w/ RN. It's not entirely smooth, but with changes coming to the React Native Packager, it'll get much better.

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Hi @wmonk!

I'm not sure how this would work to be honest. Their repo doesn't seem to be forked from the original facebook one, so is inherently incompatible with react-scripts-ts. I would accept a guide in a PR if you can provide one.

We (Expo in collaboration with Facebook) based create-react-native-app on create-react-app but there are some inherently incompatible pieces -- you are correct that react-scripts-ts will not work with create-react-native-app because react-native-scripts is very different from react-scripts :)

Hey @DanielRosenwasser! Wow thanks a lot for putting that together, it looks very comprehensive.

The React Native setup is fairly minimal anyway once you've spent 18 hours getting Android Studio working (tip: on Windows I was better off using a physical device).

I think this is true if you are a smart, experienced engineer at Microsoft, but it is also certainly not ideal. Additionally, it is a pain to just get Android Studio set up but it doesn't stop there -- what if you want to set up iOS as well? and what if you want to try out iOS and you're on Windows? Then there's the build errors when adding native modules (CRNA includes a bunch out of the box), project configuration woes, etc. The time-to-hello-world (TTHW) is too high, and in some cases not possible (React Native iOS development from Windows) without using Create React Native App (CRNA).

CRNA will be recommended in the Quick Start guide for React Native starting in React Native 0.45 so you will be getting more questions about this.

We would be happy to work with you to make TypeScript integration in CRNA a breeze, let us know how we can help.

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@DanielRosenwasser @brentvatne it would definitely be cool to put together some kind of guide of how to get ts working in CRNA and visa versa! Not sure if it's something that would live here though?

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I'm not sure how this would work to be honest. Their repo doesn't seem to be forked from the original facebook one, so is inherently incompatible with react-scripts-ts. I would accept a guide in a PR if you can provide one.

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@brentvatne I definitely agree. Sorry I didn't get to respond to this (it was EOD Friday). I think long term I want to make the process as easy as possible. Short term, I want to make it at least somewhat possible. 😄

I think things will be getting better thanks to metro-bundler. I'll email you soon to try to open up some discussion from our end. Thanks for reaching out!

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For anyone who tries to use TypeScript with CRNA, check this :
expo/create-react-native-app#87 (comment)

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As this hasn't been updated for a while, I am closing this issue. Please re-open if we have an update.

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