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In the last lecture, I introduced you to Gatsbyjs

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and I called it an amazing project,

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it is.

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If that was amazing,

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react native was just mind blowing.

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React native, if you google for it you'll find the official page on

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github is another project created by Facebook. React native essentially is react

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but for mobile apps

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and with that, I mean native apps, native iOS s or Android apps. With reactjs taught in this course,

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you of course learned how to build web apps with javascript,

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with react native,

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you use javascript and react and another library, react native to build mobile apps. You still write

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javascript code

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but then react native will compile that to code that runs on iOS or Android devices,

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it does so by exposing some building blocks to you like this view component which is your alternative

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to a div.

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Divs only work in web browsers of course,

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now the view behind the scenes is an element, an element running on iOS or Android.

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That's the idea behind react native,

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you write native code but with javascript that gets compiled and with the same react logic you learned

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in this code.

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So you still need to learn some new things when diving into react native because of all these new components

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and some other things that change but it's still extremely simple to get started.

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There even is a create react app alternative for react native,

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it's called create react native app, so very close to the name I guess.

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Definitely feel free to dive into react native, dive into docs, use that create react native app too

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and feel free to take your react knowledge to start building native apps with it,

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it takes some adjustments, it takes some new things to learn but it's an amazing opportunity to build

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real native apps and not just web apps.

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Now that's not necessarily better

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but if you want to get into native app development, with that you've got a chance of doing so without

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learning Android or Swift Objective-C first.