cometchat-react-native-bare-patterns

Ground truth: @cometchat/chat-uikit-react-native@5 + catalog rn-v5.json. Docs: /ui-kit/react-native/react-native-cli-integration · react-native-conversation · react-native-tab-based-chat.

Companion skills (read first)

• cometchat-react-native-core — install, provider chain, init→login→render. Assumed, not repeated here.
• cometchat-react-native-expo-patterns — the Expo equivalent. Use that one for an Expo project.

Use this skill when

• the project has real ios/ and android/ directories and no expo key in app.json
• "add chat to my React Native CLI app" · "Android build fails after installing CometChat"

Prerequisites & install