Make a Mobile App with a Backend in React Native and Express

This repository contains the starter and end result code for App Dev Club's workshop at Technica 2022.

Development setup

1. Download or clone this repo to your computer.
2. cd to the root of this repo (you should see this README.md when you ls or dir in this folder).
3. Follow the relevant instructions below:
   • macOS / Linux: run ./setup.sh in bash, zsh, etc...
   • Windows only: run ./setup in PowerShell
   • Follow the directions listed. If you get a message that says "Happy Hacking," then you are all set.

Running

This is a two part app, it has a frontend and a backend. As such there are two parts to running this app, for which you will need two terminal windows.

1. Switch into the app directory, run npm start. The Expo server should be running.
2. Switch into the backend directory, run npm start. This should start the API server, presuming there are no syntax errors.

Viewing the finished code

If you downloaded from GitHub, you can just change your branch in the website. If you cloned, you can simply git checkout finished-code. (You might also have to rerun the above commands to ensure the dependencies are installed still.)