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Creating a new project

Creating a new project

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Creating a new project

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- [Instructor] In the last lesson, we created our first React Native application using Expo Snack. But typically, we want to build applications in our own environment. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to set up a React Native project locally, using the Expo CLI. So let's start by opening up our terminal, and navigating to the documents folder, And then I'm going to create a new React Native app using Expo by running the command npx Expo init color catalog. This is running the Expo command line tool using npx. Expo init is going to create a brand new React Native app for us. That app is going to be called the Color Catalog. The first thing Expo is going to ask me is to choose a template. For our first app, we're going to go ahead and start out with a blank template. Once our application has been created for us, we can see that we have a folder called color catalog. I'm going to go ahead and open up this file folder,…

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