Using @react-native-community/cli instead of react-native-cli

[zhigang1992]

@react-native-community/cli

is the official next version of react-native-cli

https://github.com/react-native-community/cli

There are some differences with them.

[brodycj]

Definitely an interesting idea.

From https://github.com/react-native-community/cli#using-npx-recommended and https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/0.61-stable/package.json#L4 I start to wonder why not just use cli.js from the react-native package itself?

[zhigang1992]

Yeah, it'd be awesome if we can eliminate this external dependency, and don't have to worry about them getting out of sync.

[brodycj]

This issue is now pinned in first place, I hope to get it resolved in the near future.

And I would definitely favor this idea over using npx as proposed in issue #265 & PR #267.

[brodycj]

I would like to clarify for the sake of some others that this project would use @react-native-community/cli by adding it to its package dependencies, as they documented here: https://github.com/react-native-community/cli#about

[brodycj]

The one major drawback of this idea is that @react-native-community/cli seemed to be a heavy dependency when I tried adding it in my workarea. I think the ideal solution would be to somehow render the example from the template in react-native itself and then use Yarn and pod to install its dependencies.

Any alternatives from the user community would be welcome for discussion.