Yes, it is advised to learn React before you start with React Native, since the principles you’ll need when developing in React Native are all based on React.8 Nis 2016
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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.
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