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akveo/kittentricks — explained in plain English

Analysis updated 2026-06-24

7,263TypeScriptAudience · vibe coderComplexity · 3/5LicenseSetup · moderate

tl;dr

A free MIT-licensed React Native starter kit with 40 pre-built screens for iOS and Android, covering shopping, social, and fitness apps so you can connect your own backend and ship faster.

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  root((Kitten Tricks))
    What it does
      40 pre-built screens
      iOS and Android
      Light and dark themes
    Tech
      React Native
      TypeScript
      Expo toolchain
      UI Kitten components
    Screen categories
      E-commerce
      Social networking
      Fitness tracking
    Getting started
      Clone and run
      Expo Go preview
      Connect your backend

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Bootstrap a fitness or e-commerce mobile app using 40 pre-built screens instead of designing each from scratch.

VIBE 2

Build and preview a React Native app on a real device without configuring native iOS or Android development tools.

VIBE 3

Deliver a polished app with automatic light and dark theme support without writing any custom theme logic.

what's the stack?

TypeScriptReact NativeExpoUI Kitten

how it stacks up fr

akveo/kittentricksmaterial-shell/material-shellunjs/consola
Stars7,2637,2617,261
LanguageTypeScriptTypeScriptTypeScript
Setup difficultymoderateeasyeasy
Complexity3/52/52/5
Audiencevibe coderdeveloperdeveloper

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

how do i run it?

Difficulty · moderate time til it works · 30min

Requires Node.js and the Expo CLI, no native build tools needed to preview on a device.

Use, modify, and distribute freely for any purpose, including commercial apps, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

in plain english

Kitten Tricks is a starter kit for building mobile apps with React Native, the framework that lets developers write one codebase and ship it to both iOS and Android. Rather than starting from a blank screen, this kit gives you 40 pre-built screens covering common app categories like e-commerce, social networking, and fitness. The idea is to pick the screens you need, wire them up to your own backend, and have a complete-looking app much faster than building each screen from scratch. The kit is built with TypeScript for the code and uses a component library called UI Kitten, which is a related project from the same team. Layouts and visual components come from a design system called Eva, which provides consistent colors, spacing, and style rules across the app. Both light and dark themes are included, and users can switch between them at runtime without restarting the application. The project runs on Expo, which is a toolchain for React Native that simplifies the process of building and testing apps without needing to configure native iOS or Android development environments from scratch. A live demo is available on both the App Store and Google Play so you can see what the finished kit looks like on a real device before deciding to use it. The kit is free and open source under the MIT license. You can also clone the repository and run it locally. Documentation for the UI Kitten components is maintained separately on the team's documentation site. The project is made by Akveo, a development team that builds UI tools and templates. They describe this as a starting point that you compose into your own application by connecting real data and adding any custom screens your product requires.

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I am using the Kitten Tricks React Native starter kit. How do I replace the sample product list on the e-commerce screen with data fetched from my own REST API?
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How do I add a brand-new screen to the Kitten Tricks navigation stack and link to it from the home screen tab bar?
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How do I let users toggle between light and dark themes in Kitten Tricks from a settings screen and persist their preference?

Frequently asked questions

what is kittentricks fr?

A free MIT-licensed React Native starter kit with 40 pre-built screens for iOS and Android, covering shopping, social, and fitness apps so you can connect your own backend and ship faster.

What language is kittentricks written in?

Mainly TypeScript. The stack also includes TypeScript, React Native, Expo.

What license does kittentricks use?

Use, modify, and distribute freely for any purpose, including commercial apps, as long as you keep the copyright notice.

How hard is kittentricks to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is kittentricks for?

Mainly vibe coder.

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