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id: upgrading
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title: Upgrading
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layout: docs
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category: Guides
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permalink: docs/upgrading.html
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next: platform-specific-code
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---
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Upgrading to new versions of React Native will give you access to more APIs, views, developer tools
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and other goodies. Because React Native projects are essentially made up of an Android project, an
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iOS project and a JavaScript project, all combined under an npm package, upgrading can be rather
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tricky. But we try to make it easy for you. Here's what you need to do to upgrade from an older
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version of React Native:
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## 1. Upgrade the `react-native` dependency
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Note the latest version of the `react-native` npm package from here (or use `npm info react-native` to check):
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* https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native
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Now install that version of `react-native` in your project with `npm install --save`. For example, to upgrade to the version `0.18`, in a terminal run:
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```sh
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$ npm install --save react-native@0.18
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```
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## 2. Upgrade your project templates
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The new npm package will likely contain updates to the files that are normally generated when you
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run `react-native init`, like the iOS and the Android sub-projects. To get these latest changes,
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run this in a terminal:
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```sh
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$ react-native upgrade
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```
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This will check your files against the latest template and perform the following:
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* If there is a new file in the template, it is simply created.
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* If a file in the template is identical to your file, it is skipped.
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* If a file is different in your project than the template, you will be prompted; you have options
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to view a diff between your file and the template file, keep your file or overwrite it with the
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template version. If you are unsure, press `h` to get a list of possible commands.
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# Manual Upgrades
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Xcode project format is pretty complex and sometimes it's tricky to upgrade and merge new changes.
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### From 0.13 to 0.14
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The major change in this version happened to the CLI ([see changelog](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.14.0-rc)) and static images ([see docs](docs/images.html)). To use the new asset system in existing Xcode project, do the following:
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Add new "Run Script" step to your project's build phases:
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Set the script to
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```sh
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../node_modules/react-native/packager/react-native-xcode.sh
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```
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Move main.jsbundle to Trash (it will be generated automatically by Xcode using the script above)
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If you installed Node via nvm, you might experience "react-native: command not found". See [issues/3974](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/3974) for workaround and [pull/4015](https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/4015) for the fix.
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