getInitialState not working in Movies Tutorial

[gugahoi]

Trying to follow the React Native tutorial with the Movies app.
Using iOS or Android everything goes fine until we try to introduce state into the component.
The tutorial does not use ES6 classes but the Hello World App does and this is where it gets confusing.

The tutorial says to add getIntialState which breaks I assume due to using ES6 classes, however using a constructor also does not seem to work so I wanted to know what is the correct way to proceed?

Tutorial

  getInitialState: function() {
    return {
      movies: null,
    };
  },

ES6 Equivalent?

  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      movies: null,
    };
  },

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[ide]

Yep, that is how to set state. In the future, please use Stack Overflow or other resources for help - especially those about React as opposed to React Native internals - since we reserve the GitHub issues for bugs and feature development.