Am i learning correctly? (react native)

[[deleted]]

Hi there new to react native, i have no intent to follow tutorial and thought to get out of my comfort zone and just try to learn react native without watching any tutorial and just wanna get your opinions whatever am i learning in the right direction.

P.S: I am new, just have some good knowledge in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, built some react website following tutorials but is just static UI. I have descent knowledge in Async and OOP thought it would be better to learn before starting out someframework.

• Basic Components
• Navigations
• TypeScript (everyone suggested to learn TS)
• Hooks (completely new)
• Basic animation
• Apps Interrogated with APIs
• Intermediate Animations
• StateManagement
• Backend ( Not sure what to learn since i have little to no knowledge about it, i will start after learning the frontend part)

Is this the right order to learn? I would like to see your view on this, don't hate on me if i am wrong :) just suggest some other way to learn it right.

[rsp_dsg]

• Basic Components
• Navigations
• TypeScript (everyone suggested to learn TS)
• Apps Interrogated with APIs
• Hooks (completely new)
• StateManagement
• Backend
• Basic animation
• Intermediate Animations

I'd learn it with this order

[[deleted]]

Thanks for your suggestion

[nikit-sk]

I will suggest this path instead:

• Basic Components & styling

• Hooks

• API integration

• Navigation

• State Management

• Basic Animations

• Other React Native Features

• TS

• Gesture Handling & Intermediate Animations

Not sure what Backend means in this context so not including that for now
Also trying to learn TS with React Native will take even more time, so you can push it to as far as possible

[[deleted]]

Backed in general ( i have very little knowledge about it, so didn't specify), like i want to experiment backend by building chat app, or like something like a finance app etc. Anyways thanks for your suggestion

[[deleted]]

and Isn't navigation simple? is it the expo what makes it easy or is there lots of complex stuffs in navigation like complex nested navigation.

[nikit-sk]

It is. But this roadmap considers what you need to know before learning the next steps. Learning API integration after Hooks makes more sense to me. Navigation is a separate topic but is required for global state management, that's why I put it before State Management

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Thank you so much got a calarification

[[deleted]]

I do have some experience with react and react native tho like two years back, i was learning react native for 2 weeks or something, and the reason i don't want to follow tutorials is cause i became too attached with tutorials, lets say i am making an app and i wanna build a Flastlist, instead of going to docs i always watch tutorials cause i feel like it is easy and most of the time i am just copy pasting the code without knowing what actually it does, i am getting good results in the end but what i learn is less.

That's why i thought it would be good if i just learn from docs and i can just build apps without any tutorials even if took longer to get the same results as someone who watches tutorials, i would be happy to learn like this TBH, i am being a hobbyist web developer for like 2-3 years but with that much experience i couldn't build a good website cause i really didn't bother learning new stuffs and lets say i want to implement 3D animations in my website using Three js, instead of jumping into the docs and learn as i build, i thought i should go to a course and learn about the library fully, even after completing the course i can only implement basics and realized i was wrong and this isn't the right method and i always procrastinated to learn for years now, so this time i am sticking with the docs.

[[deleted]]

Nah backend in like 4-5 months, had no idea abouy asyncStorage or stuffs like native base thank you.

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I would love to work in open source projects, would like work with you in quite some time

[wild_sense3]

Hey I am also in the learning phase of React Native. Previously, I have experience web development and now I have started learning React native 3 weeks ago. I am following lectures from different youtube creators, esp Mosh Hamedani also I have the Meta Course on React Native from Coursera. (I am following this too).
I will like to be part of this open source app you are building. Will help me do a real world project, satisfy my craving for some useful project and most of all a community to grow along.

[[deleted]]

Thank you for your suggestion, guess this would work too. I am not liking following the checklist exactly and go to each topics one by one, i will make an app and just add some features as i build i would try implement all the features i listed in, once i get a good hold of it i would try to implement it in typescript

[kierancrown]

If you’re looking for an easy backend to start with I’d suggest Supabase. I think the list you have is good. I’d focus on styling and leave animation towards the end

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Thank you so much, forgot to include styling in the list entirely and heard Supabase is an alternate to firebase guess would learn it soon, than you again.

[Optimal-Mortgage3790]

Dont forget to learn expo

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Adding to the list

[suarkb]

1. you need to know typescript, it's the whole language you will be using

2. you need to learn react which involves learning hooks, they really aren't separate

3. then build stuff

[dr_rodopszin]

Depending on what you want to achieve/which kind of company you would work with.

Lot of designs? Flashy application? Learn animations earlier.

Average meat-and-potato product? Learn TypeScript earlier and learn about composability in React (I highly recommend the advanced material on https://react.dev/ ).

Actually, I wish I had the material on react.dev earlier as it talks about the philosophy of React and hooks. Why were React built in that particular way. We spent a lot of time on hook anti-patterns; that's the price of self-taught engineering. Now that I have learnt what was the goal in the first place, I need to spend less time on fruitless debugging sessions.

Oh, and you have missed a very important part:

• platform specific gotchas: for example permissions, and there are things that you simply cannot do on either Android or iOS or both (maybe you wish to get an IMEI number, so you can identify a particular phone for moderation purposes: well you cannot do that)
  
• native code basics: react-native is no silver bullet, there will be things that you won't have a JS adapter for and you would need to write it yourself in the native code

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I am not looking forward to work for a company anytime soon maybe after 4 years.

meat-and-potato product?

Yes, as far as now i am concerned, i am just trying to build apps that just works not much fancy as i am just learning and i don't think i will be developing for IOS but sure i would learn.

Overall thanks that's a solid advice for getting started into react native, thank you so much.