React Native Expo + Gluestack Setup: Build a Threads Clone | Episode 1

[@Onyaga]

awesome man im just starting with react native and this tutorial is much better to follow along than a lot of other things i've seen

[@ReactNativeNerd]

Glad you like the format!

[@a4arpon]

Just started learning RN.

[@ReactNativeNerd]

Good luck on the start of your journey!

[@yaguangli4797]

if you met issue like "skipping path" and metro.config etc file is empty when do "npx gluestack-ui init", make sure all your folder name dont contains space

[@ReactNativeNerd]

I hadn't seen that error before but thanks for the callout!

[@xloverdoll7950]

Some people say that gluestack has performance issues, is that true?

[@ReactNativeNerd]

Yeah it's a good question, v1 was definitely very slow but they have improved the speed a bit with v2. Honestly, the styling framework will slow it down enough, but I don't think it's enough to make a difference unless you have a lot of native animations. There are a few benchmarks that go over that in more detail gluestack.io/ui/docs/home/performance/benchmarks

[@hafizsyahputra7196]

I saw in another video there is a file with the App.js format. I don't understand why it's different in every react native installation, while in your video it uses index.tsx Explanation please sir

[@ReactNativeNerd]

There's two different methods of routing in React Native & Expo. The older version is called React Navigation while I'm using a newer method called Expo Router which is a file based routing system similar to Next.js. Both work great but Expo Router will only be used on newer videos

[@SaravanaKrishnappa]

ho apply gluestack ui to react-native cli app , having issues for global css file

[@ReactNativeNerd]

You might want to try just going through the Gluestack installation steps from the start since it should handle adding global.css. You can always create gobal.css yourself as well with ``` @tailwind base; @tailwind components; @tailwind utilities; ```

[@DeskaYudaPratama]

Its Expo sdk 49 ?

[@ReactNativeNerd]

The tutorial actually starts on Expo 51 and I ended up updating midway through to Expo 52