New React Native project with old version of react native

Question

I am trying to create a new react native project which should utilize an older version of react-native.

The result I would like would be to do something like:

Answer 1

There is a new parameter in react-native init that allows just this. Try:

react-native init --version="react-native@0.36.0" MyNewApp

Here my source. I have successfully tested it with react-native-cli 2.0.1.