# Nitro (Mobile app templates)

> Nitro is a free, open-source mobile app template built with React and React Native. Insanely fast native C++, Swift or Kotlin modules with a statically compiled binding layer to JSI. It has 1,962 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license.

Nitro Modules are fast, type-safe native modules for React Native with statically compiled bindings to JSI. They consist of two parts:

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/margelo/nitro |
| Built with | React, React Native, TypeScript |
| Live demo | https://nitro.margelo.com |
| GitHub template repository | no |
| GitHub stars | 1,962 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | C++ |
| Official | yes |
| Category | Mobile app templates |
| Latest release | v0.37.1 (Aug 27, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |

## Get started

### Copy with degit

```sh
npx degit margelo/nitro my-app
cd my-app
npm install   # then run the dev script from the README
```

### Or clone with git

```sh
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/margelo/nitro.git my-app
```

Commercial use depends on the MIT license. Sources: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/creating-a-repository-from-a-template, https://github.com/Rich-Harris/degit

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