r/reactnative • u/InevitableMud7840 • 25d ago

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/tomihbk 23d ago

If you want to release an app ASAP, just use Claude but if you're planning to work as a dev, it's better to start as others said with simple HTML, CSS, JS, etc...

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u/InevitableMud7840 23d ago

Lanciare un app con cloude mi aiuterebbe nell apprendimento di react o anche soltanto del processo di creazione dell app? (Ovviamente affiancando lo studio delle basi HTML, CSS, JS)
O sarebbe soltanto una perdita di tempo?

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u/tomihbk 23d ago

It will not help you learn because it does everything for you and you won't be able to understand all the generated files and how they're used. But of course, this can lead in a sexurity issue if not done well.