react-native-paper VS react-navigation

In most cases they are wrappers around pure RN components (as I have been burnt by styling lib in the past - exactly NativeBase and its performance issues) and in the end, created components look like very light-weight version of RN paper components*:* https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper/blob/main/src/components/Typography/Text.tsx.

react paper modal - Modal

Some that also come up are: * https://github.com/akveo/react-native-ui-kitten * https://github.com/draftbit/react-native-jigsaw/tree/master/packages/ui * https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper * https://github.com/GeekyAnts/NativeBase * https://github.com/react-native-elements/react-native-elements

I'd say a good start would be to check the demos for NativeBase and Paper to compare the look/feel and see if they have all the components you need.

React Native Paper

CSS-based UI libs don't make sense on mobile; your new options include NativeBase, React Native Elements and others). Some web-based UI libs do have RN siblings though - such as React Native Material and React Native Paper (for Material-UI), and tailwind-rn (for Tailwind). This just means new decisions to make, some learning, and new paradigms for how to use the new libs.

I'll suggest going with native base and react native paper . As these are only 2 libraries up there which are efficient and give some good results.

Every time when I start to learn something new I usually have a look at popular open source project. So I can understand some good patterns etc. E.g. https://github.com/callstack/react-native-paper

UPDATE: Looks like I'm not the only one https://github.com/react-navigation/react-navigation/issues/10988

Does this work on @react-navigation/native-stack or only @react-navigation/stack ? I know you said

React Navigation

you're more than likely going to need https://reactnavigation.org/ for pages and tabs/bottom nav.

Wow, that's A LOT, but when You do a simple setup does it just work when You just follow the reactnavigation.org docs procedure? because when I do I, First I get the error, node modules not found then after restarting my PC I get these error: FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures. 1: Task failed with an exception. ----------- * Where: Build file 'C:\Users\user\Documents\WORK\ENGINEERING\PROJECTS\REACT NATIVE PROJE CTS\1LEARNING\Nav1\node_modules\react-native-screens\android\build.gradle' line: 33 This is what I have on line 33: apply plugin: 'kotlin-android' * What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':react-native-screens'. > Could not initialize class org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.plugin.KotlinGradleBuil dServices * Try: > Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. > Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.