How to Use Styled Components with React Native | Beginner Course

Changing a component's look based on props with plain StyleSheet gets ugly fast. Styled Components brings CSS-in-JS to React Native: one styled button that flips colors when you pass primary, sensible defaults when you don't. I build the whole thing in the video, from install to composed components, and the code is free on codewithbeto.dev.

What's inside

• Install styled-components in a fresh Expo project
• Create a styled text component with real CSS syntax inside backticks
• Drive colors and sizes dynamically through props
• Build a styled button on top of TouchableOpacity
• Set default prop values so nothing breaks when props are omitted
• Why colocated, reusable styles scale better than plain StyleSheet

Resources

CourseReact Native course

Go deeper in the Style & Design section: 80 minutes on design systems and reusable components.