mslipenchuk267 / jokebook

This is a React Native app featured in the Building Mobile Apps with React Native workshop at OwlHacks 2020.

Jokebook

See the non-live coded (and better organized) version https://github.com/mslipenchuk267/jokebook_practice.

Supplementary Info: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pHZHlL32wZwnA9zDsr-KxQN28ZfXSSyGI6VCUnxSHbg/edit

App Description

Get random jokes pulled from https://github.com/15Dkatz/official_joke_api and save jokes you like for later.

This is a simple RN app that is meant to showcase functional components, hooks, react-navigation, interacting with APIs, redux, redux-thunk, and async storage.

Build Requirements

Follow directions at: https://reactnative.dev/docs/environment-setup

Use the expo cli quick-start tab.

To setup simulators (iOS and Anroid) follow the instructions in react-native-cli tab.

Running the Expo Project

1. Run expo install and then expo start in project directory
2. You have many options of running the app now
3. enter i or a into the terminal to run the app on an ios or android simulator respectively
4. You will be redirected to a page in your browser called the Metro Bundler which gives you options of running the app on simulators or on your own device
5. To run on your own device, install the expo app onto your phone and scan the qr code