Do I need to know React for React Native?

Learning React Native when you know react already is easy enough . The difficult parts are largely the same. Styling and UI/UX is pretty different for mobile apps so that takes some getting used to. But if you know React well you won’t need more than a couple of days to transition to react native.26 Mar 2017

Should I learn React before learning React Native? Creating native mobile apps in React Native is very similar to developing web apps in React in some respect. If you don’t have much technical knowledge and experience with web development yet, it’s worth you get familiar with React first .

The short answer is it will take you between 1-12 months of learning to become proficient with React. This depends on your existing software development experience, your knowledge of javascript and the learning path you take.

Learning mobile development is not a piece of cake and comparatively difficult than web development mostly. No matter if you choose to learn React Native (which is one of the easiest ) or any other platform/framework for mobile development.