Get the Code

After you buy, you get an invitation to a private GitHub repository. This page takes you from that email to a folder on your computer.

1. Tell us your GitHub username

The invite goes to a GitHub account, not an email address. If you have not given us your username yet, open the boilerplate page on this site while signed in and use the repository access panel.

2. Accept the invitation

GitHub emails you an invite. Click View invitation, then Accept invitation. You can also find pending invites at github.com/notifications.

Once accepted, the repository appears in your own repository list.

3. Get the files

If you use the command line

git clone https://github.com/hassancs91/expo-native-starter.git my-app
cd my-app

Rename my-app to whatever you like. That folder is your project from now on.

The clone is small, about 4 MB, and lands in under 15 seconds on a normal connection.

If you have never used git

Install GitHub Desktop, sign in with the account that accepted the invite, then choose File > Clone repository, pick expo-native-starter from the list, and choose where to put it. Same result, no commands.

4. Keep it as your own project

You now have two reasonable setups.

Option A, simplest. Treat the clone as your project and stop pulling updates. Nothing else to do.

Option B, keep getting updates. Point origin at your own private repository and keep ours as upstream:

git remote rename origin upstream
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-REPO.git
git push -u origin main

Later, pull our updates with:

git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/main

What you get for the lifetime of the product

Repository access does not expire. New features and fixes land on main, and git fetch upstream brings them in.

Next: Run It on Your Computer.