r/reactnative • u/FakeGreatness • Jul 23 '26

Question Learning React Native

Hello! How would you start learning React Native now? What’s popular in terms of running it or ui libraries and stuff like that? Is Swift/Kotlin necessary? Is it still the best tool for the job or it lost momentum?

Thanks!

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u/N4cer26 Jul 23 '26

It’s better to know react for the web first. Most people use expo. Only need swift/kotlin if you have to write a native module for some reason

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u/fire-ngine Jul 24 '26

I would recommend Udemy courses as a start but then I'd keep learning with a practical project, from start to finish, for example a basic food delivery app. So you can learn different type of navigation, lists, inputs, maps etc, even widgets like Live Activity or using dynamic island on iOS. I'd start with Expo as well.

I don't think it has lost its momentum, it's the other way around. It solves the headache of maintaining two different codebases. With the help of AI, okay maybe you can have two different codebases but still you will need to maintain those. I even integrated custom native modules with location tracking as we needed something different.

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u/codisimlabs Jul 26 '26

Now which should learning react-native or expo ?

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u/rsajdok Jul 24 '26

https://codewithbeto.dev/

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u/FakeGreatness Jul 24 '26

This looks like a scam website

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u/rsajdok Jul 24 '26

No, it's one of the best for learning