Description

Mobile client (React Native) + backend (Node) scaffold to quickly set up new apps.

How to use

To run backend on machine:

• Run docker-compose up -d db or install MongoDB & $ mongod from terminal
• Install NPM modules by $ cd scaffold-mobile && yarn installand $ cd scaffold-backend && yarn install
• $ cd scaffold-backend && yarn dev to boot the server
• Recommended to get MongoDB Compass to easily check records in the database
• Recommended to get Postman if you would like to test the server API

To run mobile client on machine:

• Install Expo and run scaffold-mobile
• Install Redux Devtools and point to port 19001 (just open a new tab within Redux Devtools and confirm the port)
• Run the app from Expo on the iOS Simulator or an Android Emulator (Genymotion recommended)

Contents

Includes:

• Modular folder structure. More boilerplate but makes the app more scalable.
• Express / NodeJS to run backend, Mongoose to connect to MongoDB
• React Native app created as Expo project
• Redux to manage UI state on client, with Redux Thunk for asynchronous calls
• React Navigation to navigate the mobile client, integrated into Redux
• Some helper functions. import { navigate, resetAndNavigate } from './../helpers/navigationHelpers. Use navigate(navigation, <nameOfYourScreen> to navigate to screen which will rest on top of the nagivation stack, use resetAndNavigate(navigation, <nameOfScreen1>, <nameOfScreen2>,...) to define explicitely which navigation stack to go to.
• User registration (using bcrypt for password hashing) and login
• Simple "events" functionality: Users can create and see events

To add:

• Use login history on server
• Add user sessions and add security so only logged in users can use events API
• Email services (for user registration etc)
• Web client (React)