Cli: react-native init should have a folder option in addition to the current ProjectName one

[zabojad]

As written in the title, a folder option would be very welcome. It should allow to give a different location to the default one it currently uses.

We should be able to do:

foo@bar:~$ react-native init AwesomeProject .

or

foo@bar:~$ react-native init AwesomeProject awesome05

[thymikee]

I think that makes sense

[thymikee]

@zabojad ping, would you like to take a stab at it? :) We've rewritten init to be a local command, so it's way easier to test now.

[lucasbento]

Is anyone working on this? If not I would like to do it.

[garretteklof]

Is there a manual workaround for this? If I init a react-native project with an app name, then change the folder name (not app name) it will no longer build. I'm guessing there a few other things I need to change in some configs. The name of my folder can differ from the name of the app itself, correct? And the name of the folder doesn't have to be alphanumeric? (hyphens) Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[lucasbento]

@garretteklof: changing just the folder should work fine, if you have a unix-like OS just do mv MyProject my-new-project-folder and that should be it.

[garretteklof]

Yeah every time I do that (just change the folder name, or mv) it won't build.

[thymikee]

@garretteklof this issue and @lucasbento response is about changing the _root_ directory of your React Native project, not the Xcode or Android project name. Please mind the difference. The later is not supported automatically.

[garretteklof]

@thymikee I'm aware. I definitely just wanted to change the root folder (I know there's a separate process for the project name). Apologies if I didn't spell that out well enough. For me, what worked was deleting the ios/build folder, and then re-running react-native run-ios. Without doing that, various build errors like the one I pasted above kept occurring. Hopefully this is of some help to someone. Thanks for the responses!