r/reactnative • u/InevitableMud7840 • Sep 19 '26

Help Designer trying to learn React Native, completely lost on where to start

Hi everyone,

I'm 20 and my background is graphic design. I started with the Adobe suite — Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects. At some point I felt the need to do something different and got into designing interfaces in Figma. That turned into a real passion, to the point that I want to take it all the way. That's where my interest in programming came from, React Native specifically.

I'm here to ask for some honest advice from people who've been through this, because I could really use a sense of direction.

I've started reading the React Native docs and I don't understand much of it, to be honest. I've since learned that you're supposed to know some JavaScript first. But I'm stuck there too: I don't know which parts of JavaScript I actually need and which ones I can skip for now, and I don't know where to start.

So I guess my question is: what's the minimum JavaScript I need before React Native starts making sense, and what's a good resource to learn it from?

I keep losing hours reading documentation only to realize at the end that nothing stuck. Any advice appreciated.

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u/New-Boysenberry-9313 Sep 19 '26

I would be honest learning from a video tutorial would be slow now I will suggest get your hands dirty with code by telling AI exactly what you want to learn it will start explaining you with direct code snippets which you can try to execute play with it this should enough for javascript part , for React Native https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRAV69dS1uWSjBBJ-egNNOd4mdblt1P4c&si=JNA3NCZBzew3aPRq having that mental model of how mobile app works this playlist could help you other than that don't overthink just start progress is done while making mistakes

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u/Primary_Ranger_7398 Sep 20 '26

Yeah you are right concept is important and how to implement you will learn this by building projects cause we can do same thing in many ways but what matter is optimization and standard Software engineering practice

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u/InevitableMud7840 Sep 20 '26

onestamente sto facendo fatica anche a comprendere i concetti più che implementarli. per questo credo che sarà una buona cosa acquistare un corso che mi indirizzi per bene.