Hey, I am the maintainer of #rnpm with @kureevalexey - happy to answer questions!
We have mainly build rnpm to ease the development and reduce amount of steps you have to do in order to link 3rd party RN projects. Our roadmap for upcoming months includes stuff like linking native dependencies (bridge to CocoaPods or similar solution) as well as further integration with React Native to make a single CLI to rule them all instead of two! (react-native & rnpm)
Happy coding!
React Boilerplate 3.0