React Native CLI Tools
JSON →The `react-native-cli` npm package, specifically version 2.0.1 (last updated in 2017), served as the legacy command-line interface for bootstrapping and managing React Native projects. It was designed for global installation, enabling users to create new applications with `react-native init`. However, this package has been superseded; modern React Native development strongly advocates for using `npx react-native` instead. This `npx` approach dynamically fetches and executes the project-local CLI tools (primarily `@react-native-community/cli` or the `react-native` package itself), which ensures compatibility with the specific React Native framework version used in a given project, mitigating issues associated with outdated global CLI installations. The version numbers like v0.85.x seen in recent changelogs refer to the core `react-native` framework package, not this `react-native-cli` wrapper, which has effectively been abandoned.
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