reactnative-nextjs-template

NOTE: Work in progress until version is 1.0.0+

Build native apps (iOS/Android/Windows/macOS) and an SEO-optimized web app from the same React codebase, using React Native/Expo and Next.js

(Created with npx create-next-app -e with-expo [PROJECTNAME])

Note: this is my v5 boilerplate for React apps. See also my Next.js + Firebase boilerplate.

Why is this awesome?

This allows you to build both a native app for iOS/Android/Windows/macOS/etc, as well as an SEO-optimized web app from same codebase.

Use cases

1. You want a same user experience in a native app and on the web.
2. You want a shared codebase between a native app and a separate website.
3. You want a shared repository for native app and its API, powered by Next.js and Vercel serverless functions.

Todo list

• Server-side rendering (SSR)
• SEO: Semantic tags e.g. H1, H2, H3
• SEO: Page metadata support
• Header (from react-native-elements)
• Video player
• Built-in REST API (GET /api/test)
• Navigation
• Flexible CSS solution
• Font support
• SVG support

Demo

See reactnative-nextjs-template running on Vercel here.

Support this project

Did you or your company find reactnative-nextjs-template useful? Please consider giving a small donation, it helps me spend more time on open-source projects:

Deploying

Setup and deploy your own project using this template with Vercel:

How to use

Note: If you set up your project using the Deploy button above, you only need to clone your own repo instead of this repository.

Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/tomsoderlund/reactnative-nextjs-template.git [MY_APP]

cd [MY_APP]

Remove the .git folder since you want to create a new repository

rm -rf .git

Install dependencies:

yarn  # or npm install

Start it in Next.js/web mode by:

yarn dev:next

…then navigate to http://localhost:3005/

Start Expo for native apps:

yarn dev

In production:

yarn build
yarn start

Modifying the app to your needs

Change app name

Do search/replace for reactnativenextjstemplate to something else. Avoid hyphens/underscores because of iOS/Android bundle names.

Change name in public/manifest.json

Change port number

Do search/replace for “3005” to something else.

Read more

• Expo’s guide on Next.js: https://docs.expo.dev/guides/using-nextjs/
  • @expo/next-adapter
  • Code example: https://github.com/expo/examples/tree/master/with-nextjs
• Solito framework: https://solito.dev/ (awesome but uses it’s own components/syntax)
• create-universal-app (CUA): https://github.com/chen-rn/CUA