It works on anything since it's just for platform support and unrelated to tooling. But on the tooling side, they also have a companion extension for (the free, multi-platform) Visual Studio Code. From the article:

> In addition to this work on the core framework support, Microsoft is also providing open source tools and services to help developers create React Native apps. The React Native extension for Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) brings an intuitive, productive environment to author and debug React Native apps.