E-commerce UI with React Native and Tailwind CSS | Beginners tutorial

If you already know Tailwind from the web, you can style React Native apps the same way with NativeWind: className and all. We build a clean e-commerce UI with it, dark mode included, and I cover the gotchas that trip people up, like why dark:text-white silently fails unless it's on the Text component itself. Full walkthrough in the video.

What's inside

• Set up NativeWind and Tailwind in a fresh Expo project
• Configure tailwind.config.js and the Babel plugin correctly
• Style components with className instead of StyleSheet objects
• Toggle dark mode with useColorScheme and toggleColorScheme
• Fix the dark mode text gotcha that catches everyone
• Keep the status bar readable in both light and dark themes

Resources

CourseReact Native course

Go deeper in the Style & Design section: 80 minutes on design systems, dark mode, and Flexbox.