Developing with React Native on Windows

I’ve been developing React Native applications a few months now under Windows. As previously I always used a Mac or Linux for development, it was quite frightening to get started. It has its limitations, but works quite well.

Both React and React Native works fine under Windows. Thus most things will work out of the box. On the other hand there are some obvious exceptions:

  • iOS builds (and even linking)
  • custom scripts
  • nvm
  • testing