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Unsure how to install react native #12651

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React Native is distributed as source code, compiled into your app. So each app you create on your PC is going to have its own copy of the React Native source code (somewhere in node_modules/). When you delete the folder, it's all gone. Nothing's "installed" in a centralized way (although that's the term that npm uses); it's all just local on disk as loose files.

There's an exception to that if you've done a persistent global install with node (e.g. node install -g). That would have created a centralized copy that can create conflicts (in older versions of our getting started guide we had instructions to navigate around that, but it hasn't been the recommended way for a while).

With that …

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