How to render a website as a native mobile app

Jun 21, 2022

This story goes over how to render a website in a native mobile app by wrapping it inside a React Native WebView.

Prerequisites

Install the Expo CLI:

npm install --global expo-cli

Then create a new React Native project:

expo init react-native-webview-example

Change into your project directory:

cd react-native-webview-example

npm install --save react-native-webview

Update App.js with the source URI to your example site:

Run your React Native application:

npm start

Install the Expo client app on iOS or Android to run the app on your phone.