Bareship is a free, MIT-licensed template for bare React Native 0.87 apps. One command, npx create-bareship Acme , gives you an iOS and Android app where a like or an edit made offline is saved, survives a restart and is sent once when the phone reconnects; where the folder rules are checked by ESLint instead of code review; and where Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot get the same rules as your team. It runs with no backend, Firebase project or Apple account until you need them.

Why another template?

Every new React Native app I've started began the same way: a week or two rebuilding the plumbing before the first real feature. A queue for writes made without signal, somewhere safe for the auth token, folder rules everyone agrees on and nobody checks. Each time I built them a little differently, and each time the gaps showed up later, in a bug report from a user with a bad connection or in a feature folder that had quietly started importing from three others.…