We advise to follow the guidelines to set up your environment by selecting your Development OS and your target OS (Android/iOS).
You'll also need jq
:
MacOS
brew install jq
Linux with apt as root
apt update && apt -y install jq
Building from source (not recommended)
Read jq documentation
Follow the steps here.
Follow the steps here.
To make sure your environment is set up correctly, try to run a template application with Create React Native App or with react-native-cli.