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Installing project specific tools like react-native globally is yucky. Even when it's just thin CLI wrappers. Unfortunately react-native actively breaks local npm binaries by forcing a broken bin stub into each project. So if you added ./node_modules/.bin to your $PATH, every attempt of running react-native inside of a project will fail with an annoying (and wrong) claim that you installed react-native globally.

The easiest solution I found so far:

  • npm install --save react-native-cli in your React Native project
  • Add the following post-install script: "postinstall": "npm link react-native-cli"

That will install the CLI tool locally (no more global path pollution ✨) and ensures that the broken bin stub that ships with react-native will be overridden with a working one after running npm install.

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jkrems commented May 11, 2016

This will soon become obsolete: facebook/react-native@8295d27

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