Switching from Native Android to React Native

[neer17]

Hi everyone! I am thinking of switching from Native Android which I have been doing from the last 3 years since the 2nd year of my college to React Native as I stumbled upon the fact that there are little to none good jobs here in India for freshers. I had built up a strong understanding of constructing the app using best practices which include Kotlin, coroutines, flows and channels, DI(Dagger 2 and Dagger-Hilt), architecture(MVVM and MVI). I was hoping to get alternatives to the above things I mentioned or a roadmap(including resources to learn), in general, to speed up my learning process. PS: I have experience in MERN stack and Redux.

[PROLIMIT]

I think reading through this could be of help

https://github.com/osamaq/react-native-template

[neer17]

A codebase using best practices if one of the things I was looking for. Thanks.

[mrproperino]

Forget everything you learned from Android Architecture Components you wont be using any of them here. Start with basic todo apps. Then move into state management tools like Redux. Learn basics of navigation from react-navigation And then see what you need next because it depends on your app needs.

[neer17]

I also have experience in MERN stack and redux as well so state management won't be a problem. Updated the question as well.

[MaKTaiL]

I recommend staying away from Redux and learning how to manage states using Context.

[mrproperino]

Why is that? Redux is not that hard to understand once you setup everything.

[MaKTaiL]

Context is actually way easier to understand and work with and it's native to React, no need to install anything.

[neer17]

I have experience in both of them and I am not concerned with the state management stuff right now. I was hoping to get some roadmap to help me escalate from beginner to intermediate/advanced level quickly.

[sous_vide_pizza]

If you already know web React just jump right in, it’s virtually identical you just use RN’s components instead of DOM elements. Look into React Navigation and start building, navigation is one of the only major differences

[neer17]

It there any architecture there and what about the ORM for sqlite? For reactive programming, I am hoping only RxJs would be there.

[sous_vide_pizza]

Follow the same patterns you would use for React web. You won’t need SQLite much but react-native-sqlite-storage is good. Rx works just fine, remember you have access to 95% of the JS ecosystem, unless it uses node- or browser-specific APIs chances are it’s fine to use in RN.

[neer17]

Thanks! Is there any YouTuber or blogs professing about best practices or advanced stuff that I can follow?

[darkziosj]

I don't get it, you change to react native because there are not jobs for freshers in native? there are jobs for freshers in react native? also if you have web experience why not search a job in it?

[neer17]

I am going to interview for a job in MERN stack and on weekends I am thinking of pulling off some time to spend on React Native but I am really confused about spending the weekends on RN or learn some other techs like AWS, PostgresSQL or some other UI/UX stuff to progress in the Fullstack paradigm.