# React Native Boilerplate (Mobile app templates)

> React Native Boilerplate is a free, open-source mobile app template built with React Native. A React Native template for building solid applications, using JavaScript or Typescript (you choose). It has 5,564 GitHub stars and is released under the MIT license.

This project is a React Native boilerplate that can be used to kickstart a mobile application. The boilerplate provides an optimized architecture for building solid cross-platform mobile applications through separation of concerns between the UI and business logic. It is fully documented so that each piece of code that lands in your application can be understood and used.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/thecodingmachine/react-native-boilerplate |
| Built with | React Native, TypeScript |
| Live demo | https://thecodingmachine.github.io/react-native-boilerplate/ |
| GitHub template repository | no |
| GitHub stars | 5,564 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Official | no |
| Category | Mobile app templates |
| Latest release | 4.11.1 (Mar 9, 2026) |
| Last commit | Apr 13, 2026 |

## Get started

### Copy with degit

```sh
npx degit thecodingmachine/react-native-boilerplate 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/thecodingmachine/react-native-boilerplate.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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