With React Native, the most important thing is to understand the ecosystem and how it comes together to create an app. By understanding the overall architecture, we will be able to take the full of advantage the platform.

The course will start by covering the fundamentals like setting up the navigation, setting up the screens, styles, and the UI elements, before moving on to more advanced topics such as state management, crash/error reporting, setting up analytics and middlewares, debugging, and performance optimizations. We will also learn how to avoid/fix frame drops - possibly the most watched parameter of any UI application.

We will also build a Design System and will follow the [Atomic Design Pattern](https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/chapter-2/) of building layouts. A Design System primarily consists of three parts:
- UI Inventory and Patterns
- Typography
- Spacing and Styles

We will cover these in detail through the modules of the course. We will also learn about the React Native best practices, how to avoid rabbit holes, and focus on building a performant app.

**This is an opinionated way of building apps with React Native**. The fundamentals discussed in the course, like Atomic Design Pattern and Design System, can be applied to building any UI application, not just ones using React Native.

## One Complete App

The course comes with one complete eCommerce sample app that is discussed through the modules of the course.

## Up-to-date

The course builds on an open-source boilerplate template and is kept up to date with React, React Native and dependent library versions. It is also updated with the latest APIs and libraries that are introduced, like Hooks, hermes, flipper etc.

## Why this course

React Native for JavaScript Developers using TypeScript is based on years of experience in building React Native apps on production. The open-source boilerplate code discussed in the course is the platform for multiple apps on App Store and Play Store today. One of them being a Unicorn.

We will take a **Product** based development approach to building apps. React Native abstracts out a lot of platform specific nuances, so wouldn't focusing on building the app as an experience make the most sense. The design pattern will help us exactly with that, and we will put together a structure that is both scalable and extensible. This architecture also helps keep the design separate from the development.

At the end of this course, you will not only be able to build real-world apps with React Native, but also have the fundamentals of building any enterprise UI application.

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The newline Guide to React Native for JavaScript Developers using TypeScript

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title: How to Set Global Styles in React Native
slug: styles
privateVideoUrl: https://fullstack.wistia.com/medias/f7no7pqemj
isPublicLesson: false
playerCode: #1D5C72
role: LESSON
description: Global styles help lay the design structure the app should follow. We'll extend our typography from the previous lesson to define styles, mainly for atoms, molecules and organisms.
---

## Prerequisites

It is highly recommended that you go through the following lessons in order before moving ahead with this one:

-   [Atomic Design](atomic-design-pattern)
-   [Typography](typography)

* * *

## Styles

After the typography, we are next going to define the app's styles. These are mostly global styles that help provide a structure to everything in the app.

Global styles help lay out the design structure the app is supposed to follow. We will use the typography defined in the previous section to define styles mainly for atoms, molecules and organisms. This is not just about the colors but also about the other finer details that complete an element's design, as a single reusable component.

For molecules and organisms, it can be the default spacing, outside margins or shadows; for buttons it can be centered texts or fonts; and for titles and subtitles it can be how they should look, format definitions, font size etc. Style guidelines are set by designers and we will build a way to represent them in the code.

The `global.tsx` file in the boilerplate code tries to lay out a base foundation at this level for the application:

```javascript { actualFilename=./protected/src/styles.js endLine=8 startLine=2 statedFilename=./src/view/styles/global.tsx url=https&#x3A;//gitlab.com/fullstackio/books/newline-guide-to-react-native-for-javascript-developers/module_03/lesson_01.02/protected/src/styles.js#L2 }
const GLOBAL = {
  LAYOUT,
  CTA,
  FONTS,
  TEXT,
  TEXT_INPUT
};
```

Global styles help lay the design structure the app should follow. We'll extend our typography from the previous lesson to define styles, mainly for atoms, molecules and organisms.