title: how to install react native without node?
body: <p>here it is what i did and how i came on this question .</p>
  
  <p>i am trying my hands on react.js ( with server side rendering) , in my development environment i use php with web server Apache 2 and nginx on ubuntu 14.04</p>
  
  <p>so i follow this step to install apache2 and PHP7 :</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo apt-get install apache2
  sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
  sudo apt-get install -y php7.0
  sudo apt-get install php7.0-cli php7.0-common libapache2-mod-php7.0 php7.0 php7.0-mysql php7.0-fpm php7.0-curl php7.0-gd php7.0-mysql php7.0-bz2
  sudo apt-cache search php7-* 
  sudo apt-get install php-all-dev php7.0-dev
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so my apache2 is default on port 80 and i install nginx on port 8080</p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo apt-get install nginx
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i configure /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and made nginx listen on port 8080</p>
  
  <p>so my web servers are up and running , now i need to install v8 engine with my php for server side rendering .</p>
  
  <p>i did it like this : <a href="https://github.com/phpv8/v8js/blob/master/README.Linux.md" rel="nofollow">new version of V8 engine (4.9) on GNU/Linux</a>  </p>
  
  <p>and it's working fine , now i am able to do serverside rendering with the help of v8 engine </p>
  
  <p>i want to learn react-native so i found this link </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://www.sitepoint.com/build-android-app-react-native/" rel="nofollow">react-native app ( We’ll be using PHP as the server-side language )</a></p>
  
  <p>as part of setup </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Install Android Studio</li>
  <li>Installation of react native</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>to install react native there is official link <a href="https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html" rel="nofollow">react-native</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>which say's i need to install node js for that but one thing i don't understand is node use v8 engine but i have already v8 engine installed so why can't i use it with react-native ??</strong> </p>
  
  <p>can some one please  guide me on this . </p>
  
  <p>!!!  Thanks for your time and support  !!!</p>