Installation

<IntroParagraph> Tamagui is easy to set up as we've invested into "0-config" installs for all bundlers. That said, it's easy to get lost if you start configuring too many things too early. </IntroParagraph>

Use npm create tamagui@latest to pick one of our starter templates.

Requirements

React Native 0.81+ with New Architecture enabled (for native apps)
React 19+
TypeScript 5+ (required)

Tamagui 2 takes advantage of new style features in React Native 0.81+ including boxShadow, filter, and more. On web, there are no version restrictions.

To install from scratch:

bash

yarn add @tamagui/core

Core is just the style library. If you plan to use our full UI kit, you can avoid installing @tamagui/core and instead:

bash

yarn add tamagui

The tamagui package is a superset of core, so anywhere the docs reference @tamagui/core, you can replace it with tamagui.

Next, you'll want to set up your configuration and provide it with TamaguiProvider:

tsx

import { TamaguiProvider, View } from '@tamagui/core'
import config from './tamagui.config' // your configuration

export default function App() {
  return (
    <TamaguiProvider config={config} defaultTheme="light">
      <View width={200} height={200} backgroundColor="$background" />
    </TamaguiProvider>
  )
}

We have a recommended preset configuration called @tamagui/config:

bash

yarn add @tamagui/config

You can use it like so:

tsx

import { TamaguiProvider, createTamagui } from '@tamagui/core'
import { defaultConfig } from '@tamagui/config/v5'

// you usually export this from a tamagui.config.ts file
const config = createTamagui(defaultConfig)

type Conf = typeof config

// make imports typed
declare module '@tamagui/core' {
  interface TamaguiCustomConfig extends Conf {}
}

export default () => {
  return <TamaguiProvider config={config} defaultTheme="light"></TamaguiProvider>
}

<Notice> Set your root theme using the `defaultTheme` prop on `TamaguiProvider` rather than wrapping your app with `<Theme>`. This ensures the [`fastSchemeChange` setting](/docs/core/configuration#settings) works on native, and allows light/dark changes on web to use faster media query-based updates during SSR. </Notice>

And that's it!

tsx

import { Button } from 'tamagui'

export default function Demo() {
  return <Button theme="blue">Hello world</Button>
}

From here, we recommend spending some time understanding configuration.

100% of Tamagui features work at both runtime and compile-time, which makes it both easy to use and fast. Because it works fully at runtime, and because we've invested a lot into building it such that it doesn't need any special bundler configuration to work on either native or web, you can begin using Tamagui with just the above setup.

Next Steps

Once you have Tamagui installed, you'll want to explore:

CLI - Command-line tools for building, optimizing, and managing your Tamagui projects
Bundler Setup - Integration guides for Next.js, Expo, Vite, Webpack, Metro, and more
Design Systems - Build your own optimized component library with Tamagui

Later on, you can set up the compiler to gain more performance and some nice development helpers.

Bundler Guides

Tamagui generally doesn't require any special bundler setup as we've worked hard to make it "just work" without configuration in a wide variety of environments.

That said, the broader React Native and React Native Web ecosystem is filled with packages that do need configuration. Tamagui provides a variety of bundler plugins that help with that: