Prerequisites

Choose the operating system of your development machine and the platform you want to build for.

Development OS

Target OS

To develop for Apple platforms (the setup is the same for both iOS and macOS), you need to set up your environment with Node.js, Watchman, CocoaPods, and Xcode.

Any of these guides work equally well:

Expo's iOS setup docs
Meta's React Native iOS setup docs
Microsoft's React Native macOS setup docs