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---
title: Bootstrapping
description: Starter kits for React Native
---
Set up a starter repo to help you learn about and bootstrap your Gui app:
### Templates
There are four starter templates:
- Free - Expo, Expo Router, Solito and Next.js (with both `/pages` and `/app`
dir).
- Learn - Client-only web app with Webpack or Vite. Useful to understand how to
set up hanzogui.config.ts.
- [Expo Router](/docs/guides/expo) - The Expo Router default starter with
Gui added via `@hanzogui/metro-plugin`.
### Usage
```bash
npm create hanzogui@latest
```
Check out
[the source of the templates](https://github.com/hanzogui/starter-free).
A big shout out to [Fernando Rojo](https://twitter.com/fernandotherojo) for
creating [Solito](https://solito.dev), a great library for sharing all your
views between Expo and Next.js, and the bootstrap repo we borrowed from.
### Starting out
The starter-free app requires yarn to run.
To run the app:
```bash
cd myapp
yarn
yarn web # Web local dev
yarn native # Expo local dev (only for `starter-free`)
```
## 📦 Included packages (`starter-free`)
- `hanzogui` for cross-platform views, themes and animations
- `solito` for cross-platform navigation
- `expo-router` for having same routing concepts between web and native
- Expo SDK 48
- Next.js 13
By integrating `Gui`, `expo-router`, `Solito`, and `Next.js` you can enjoy
the power and simplicity of creating universal apps.
## 🗂 Folder layout
- `apps` entry points for each app
- `expo`
- `next`
- `packages` shared packages across apps
- `app` you'll be importing most files from `app/`
- `features` (don't use a `screens` folder. organize by feature.)
- `provider` (all the providers that wrap the app, and some no-ops for Web.)
- `navigation` only for starter-free template, contains the navigation code
for RN
You can add other folders inside of `packages/` if you know what you're doing
and have a good reason to.
## 🏁 Start the app
- Install dependencies: `yarn`
- Next.js local dev: `yarn web`
- Runs `yarn next`
- Expo local dev: `yarn native`
- Runs `expo start`
## 🆕 Add new dependencies
### Pure JS dependencies
If you're installing a JavaScript-only dependency that will be used across
platforms, install it in `packages/app`:
```bash
cd packages/app
yarn add date-fns
cd ../..
yarn
```
### Native dependencies
If you're installing a library with any native code, you must install it in
`apps/expo`:
```bash
cd apps/expo
yarn add react-native-reanimated
cd ../..
yarn
```
You can also install the native library inside of `packages/app` if you want to
get autoimport for that package inside of the `app` folder. However, you need to
be careful and install the _exact_ same version in both packages. If the
versions mismatch at all, you'll potentially get terrible bugs. This is a
classic monorepo issue. I use `lerna-update-wizard` to help with this (you don't
need to use Lerna to use that lib).