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ueno-llc/react-native-starter
Professional react-native starter kit with everything you'll ever need to deploy rock solid apps
A React Native starter template from Ueno, a now-defunct agency. Officially deprecated and unmaintained since 2020. The README leads with a deprecation warning, which is the only honest thing to know about this repo.
- The CI/CD setup with App Center, Fastlane for both iOS and Android, and CodePush integration was well thought out for its era — the docs show real operational experience, not copy-paste boilerplate.
- MobX-State-Tree for state management was a reasonable opinionated choice when Redux was still painful; the structure is clean and avoids the Redux ceremony.
- End-to-end tests with Detox for both platforms included from the start — most starters skip this entirely.
- Deprecated and unmaintained since November 2020 — React Native has gone through major architectural changes (New Architecture, Fabric, Hermes default) that this repo knows nothing about. Using it means immediately fighting outdated native code.
- React Native Navigation 4 (Wix) was already a controversial dependency in 2020 for its native complexity; that version is now ancient and incompatible with current RN releases.
- TypeScript 3.7 and Gradle 5 are both significantly behind current versions — you will spend your first days just upgrading tooling before writing a line of app code.
- The agency that built and maintained this shut down, so there is no upstream to pull fixes from and no community around this specific starter.