At Facebook's F8 conference that happened on April 13th 2016, Microsoft announced its core support of React Native. Microsoft added React Native support to Visual Studio Code, became a core contributor to React Native itself and most importantly added support for targeting the Universal Windows Platform. The Universal Windows Platform (UWP), is a runtime that exists on all Windows 10 based devices and even the Xbox One. With React Native's third-party Windows support, we can now target a substantially larger user-base and make our apps even more accessible.
In this recipe we will cover building a React Native for Windows application. We will cover environment setup, building our first app, and running it on an emulator.