React Anywhere

An opinionated environment for building cross-platform react apps with no configuration. Inspired by and largely forked from create-react-app.

Getting Started

# Install
npm i -g react-anywhere

# Create Your App
react-anywhere init MyApp
cd MyApp

# Edit ./MyApp.js

# Develop for browsers:
react-anywhere web

# Develop on Android:
react-anywhere android

# Develop on iOS:
react-anywhere ios

# Launch react-native packager, for use when native apps are already installed:
react-anywhere native

Reserved files and warmup

You will notice that react-anywhere needs to put a few extra files and directories into your project before it can run your app.

DO NOT EDIT THESE RESERVED FILES!! They are considered an implementation detail of the environment and aren't really part of your app, so react-anywhere will regularly wipe them out and replace them.

This warmup step can be run independently, and will force a refresh of the reserved files:

react-anywhere init MyApp
cd MyApp
ls
> MyApp.js       node_modules    package.json
react-anywhere warmup
ls
> android           index.android.js    index.ios.js        ios         package.json
> MyApp.js         index.html      index.js        node_modules        web

The files are excluded from git with the default .gitignore file, and will be cleaned up as part of the npm prepublish hook. You can also clean up by hand:

# Run this to clean up the junk that react-anywhere puts in your project root:
react-anywhere clean
ls
> MyApp.js       node_modules    package.json

Anywhere version is defined by your project

In the package.json of your project, you can specify which version of the environment should be used to run your app.

{
  "name": "MyApp",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "reactAnywhere": {
    "version": "0.1.0"
  }
}

When running react-anywhere inside of MyApp, this specified version gets used. To upgrade to future versions of the react-anywhere environment, bump this version in your package.json and re-run any react-anywhere command.

Using another version of Anywhere

You can always override the version of react-anywhere that gets used to run a command:

react-anywhere init MyApp --react-anywhere-version=0.1.0

This is useful to create an app with a different environment, but it can also be used inside existing apps to experiment with future versions of react-anywhere without commiting to it.

Roadmap & Contributions

We have lots of work to do! Here is what I would like to have supported:

• Automate Jest testing
• Automate NPM publishing
• Automate native builds for play store and app store
• Allow package.json configuration of app icon and favicon
• Support "eject" ala create-react-app
• Support more platforms
• Support native dependencies
• Server rendering
• Make web server more extensible
• Switch over to react-primitives instead of relying on react-native primitives with react-native-web shim

Any and all contributions are welcome! Before embarking on a big feature, please post an RFC issue to discuss the planned implementation.