hey, i am a complete beginner with react native, been learning clojure/script and loving 'em. would love to give creating awesome mobile apps with cljs a try, but the best course and the best choices are eluding me. first things first, should I focus on learning RN first? I have no previous JS experience .. and the other big question is, which lib to use in cljs? re-natal seems a bit outdated but the cljsrn site still seems to recommend it.

Krell or shadow-cljs are modern alternatives

shadow-cljs as in using js interop ?

@bitpadawan if you’re going to start react native in clojurescript as a novice you need to be aware of what you’re getting into. You have 4-5 layers at which things can and will go wrong. Compared to 1 layer in most other environments. Your system basically looks like cljs -> js -> react native -> (swift / kotlin) -> objc / java. Things go wrong at all these steps and it’s a wonder it works as well as it does. It is the most enjoyable way to write apps when it works but I would recommend you get some experience in all of the 5 technologies individually before you take it all on at once.

@bitpadawan figwheel also does react native now https://figwheel.org/docs/react-native.html

@daniel975 well, i'm pretty convinced that cljs is the way to go, that or nothing .. it's just a lot more fun to do it with cljs. and i don't know js and would prefer to skip over the entire thing as much as possible. but I take it from your reply that things are just not at that level yet?

like, i didn't know react either, but picking up reagent/re-frame was doable

this rn stuff does seem more complicated, and if there's excellent cljs documentation for cljs+rn beginners, I must've missed it.. any resources you could suggest?

i'm determined enough to pick up js along the way if that's what it takes, but if there's a way to stay closer to cljs that would be perfect