Free React Native Courses online

Write JavaScript, get a real iOS app and a real Android app. That's the promise React Native has been making since 2015, and it mostly keeps it — the buttons, lists and scroll views on screen are genuine platform components, not a website in a costume. The gap between "mostly" and "entirely" is where the learning happens.

If you already write React for the browser, you're further along than you think. Components, props, state and hooks work exactly the same. What's new is layout without stylesheets, navigation that isn't a URL bar, and the daily reality of simulators, emulators and a phone plugged into your laptop. The seven tutorials collected here cover that arc, though not evenly.

Where to start

Expo Tutorial: Build Your First App is the honest answer for most people. Nine chapters, one app — StickerSmash — and by the end you've touched the image picker, a modal, drag gestures and screenshot saving, on iOS, Android and web. It's short enough to finish. Programming with Mosh — React Native for Beginners suits anyone who wants a slower voice explaining core components and Flexbox before touching a project, with the caveat that the free portion stops exactly where his paid series begins. Keep the React Native Official Documentation open in another tab throughout; it's built for lookup, not for teaching the framework cold.

When free stops being enough

There's a real ceiling on the free material here. It gets you to a working screen, and then you want authentication, push notifications and a build you can actually submit. React Native — The Practical Guide from Academind is the paid option we point at for that — 28 hours, and Udemy has no audit tier, so it's money or nothing. Whether that's worth it depends on how much you value someone else having already made the store-submission mistakes for you.

What we've collected

Seven entries, six of them free. One is advanced: Can It Be Done in React Native?, where William Candillon rebuilds polished app interactions live with Reanimated, Gesture Handler and Skia — no structure, no hand-holding, and the best animation material anywhere. One link is looser than its title suggests: the freeCodeCamp entry is a tag archive of roughly 85 articles and videos rather than a course, so it's good for hunting a specific answer and useless as a path. The Net Ninja's Complete React Native Course is the opposite and the most current thing here — 29 parts through Expo Router, themed UI, tabs navigation and Appwrite auth, last updated April 2025. We have no testing tutorial at all, and nothing on the New Architecture.

Our take

Start with Expo, keep the docs open, and don't buy anything until you've shipped something ugly to your own phone. The jump between the beginner tutorials and Candillon's animation work is the widest gap on this page — plan for it.