Setup react-native development environment

geekmiester · 3 May 2021 09:23

Hello everyone. I recently switched to Garuda linux and I'm lost with setting up development environment for react-native. I tried to follow general steps for linux and debian too. But i cannot seem to wrap my head around setting up the environment variables within the system. Please help
EDIT: I'm a beginner in Linux and thus don't have much idea about it's file system and editors. I wanted to add ANDROID_HOME and JAVA_HOME and its related directories to the global path.

SGS · 3 May 2021 10:25

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/environment_variables

geekmiester · 3 May 2021 11:19

Hi. Thank you for your response. I looked into it. But I got more confused. I'm a begineer in linux and thus don't have much idea about it's file system and editors. I wanted to add ANDROID_HOME and its related directories to the global path. How do I do that in Garuda??

mband008 · 3 May 2021 13:00

Hello @geekmiester ,

the "Utilities" section describes exactly how to do this (in that mentioned Arch-Wiki).
This is your chance to understand Linux by working your way through this wiki.

Have fun.

jonathon · 3 May 2021 13:12

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

Naman · 3 May 2021 20:00

Hi, welcome to the community.

Try this tutorial

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/SalahAdDin/284f42f82de735bf9a2efe8c094e2e64

Steps.md

**First step:** Install Android SDK
  1. `yaourt -S android-sdk android-sdk-platform-tools android-sdk-build-tools`  
      **Note:** Maybe you'll have problems with the lasta package: ` ncurses5-compat-libs`. In order to avoid this problem you have to use this command: `gpg --recv-keys F7E48EDB`. You can find clarification [here](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncurses5-compat-libs/?comments=all).
  2. `yaourt -S genymotion`  
      **Note:** You'll need install `virtual-box` and his modules, `yaourt` will make for you but you need choos between ArchLinux host modules or DKMS host modules.
  3. `echo -e "vboxdrv\nvboxnetflt\nvboxnetadp\nvboxpci" > /etc/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf`  
      **Note:** You need do this with super user because need super user permissions and with `sudo`, for us at least, doesn't work.
  4. `sudo modprobe vboxdrv vboxnetadp vboxnetflt`  
      Activate for current session.
  5. `sudo chmod -R 777 /opt/android-sdk`

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jonathon · 3 May 2021 20:26

Might be a little out of date…

Wow.

Naman · 3 May 2021 20:32

Wait, also read comments

To upgrade watchers limits without being in a superuser session you can use tee:
echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf

geekmiester · 4 May 2021 14:12

Hello. Thank you for your response. but right now i need to set up the system and get into development asap for my assignment, therefore i would appreciate much if you would guide me through the exact process on how to do so.

jonathon · 4 May 2021 14:30

Sounds like it’s time to ask your local technical support.

Or, are you offering to pay someone to provide you one-to-one live support?

SGS · 4 May 2021 14:34

But right now we have no time to spoon-feed.

Many answers to your question.

geekmiester · 4 May 2021 14:42

not exactly. just some help on where and how exactly I need to put the export path like in windows. I'm very confused, so i'm here to ask for help

jonathon · 4 May 2021 14:54

Search for JAVA_HOME → https://forum.garudalinux.org/search?q=java_home&expanded=true →

https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/how-do-i-set-the-java-environment-variables-in-fish/2400?u=jonathon