Setup React Native Environment For IOS

randerson112358
4 min readApr 28, 2018
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLgJreGpfyM

Step 0 — Install npm and node.js

Go to the node.js website (https://nodejs.org/en/)and install node.js. npm is distributed with Node.js which means that when you download Node.js, you automatically get npm installed on your computer.

npm is a package manger for JavaScript programming language, and the default package manager for Node.js Javascript runtime environment.

Step 1 — Install Homebrew

Open your terminal and run the following code to install Homebrew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

If for some reason copying and pasting the above didn’t work, please go directly to the website and copy and paste the command/code from there.

Step 2 — Install Watchman

Run the following code to install Watchman.

brew install watchman

Step 3 — Install React Native

Now, run the following code to install React Native.

sudo npm install -g react-native-cli

Step 4 Android — Install Android Studio

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