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When React Native was announced, the first reactions were overwhelmingly positive. Traditionally, when we think about web technologies in the mobile space, things like Apache Cordova spring to mind, which allow us to package websites or web applications as applications for mobile platforms. In this beginners’ tutorial, we will take a look at React Native’s architecture, the philosophy behind React Native, and how it differs from other solutions in the same space. By the end of the article, we will have transformed a React “Hello World” application into a React Native one.

Let us start by saying that React Native is a relatively new technology. It has been officially available since March 2015, having been in private beta since the start of that year, and internally used at Facebook for a while before that. The saying “Rome wasn’t built in a day” generally applies to technology as well. Tools like

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