mwarger / conference-app-in-a-box

Full stack & cross platform app customizable & themeable for any event or conference.

Conference App in a Box

This is the React Native CLI version. To view the Expo version, click here.

This repo goes along with my Dev.to post titled "Introducing Conference App in a Box"

Deploy a full stack & cross-platform mobile app for your next event in minutes.

🛠 Built with React Native, GraphQL, AWS Amplify, & AWS AppSync

Follow me on Twitter at @dabit3 to keep up with my future projects as well as updates and new features added to this one!

Features

⚡️ Real-time chat
👾 Themeable & customizable
👮‍♂️ Authentication & Profile view
🔥 Serverless back end
🚀 GraphQL

Deploy the back end and run the app

1. Clone the repo & install the dependencies

~ git clone https://github.com/dabit3/conference-app-in-a-box.git

~ cd conference-app-in-a-box

~ npm install

2. Initialize and deploy the Amplify project

~ amplify init

? Enter a name for the environment: dev (or whatever you would like to call this env)
? Choose your default editor: <YOUR_EDITOR_OF_CHOICE>
? Do you want to use an AWS profile? Y

~ amplify push

? Are you sure you want to continue? Y
? Do you want to generate code for your newly created GraphQL API? N

> We already have the GraphQL code generated for this project, so generating it here is not necessary.

3. Start the app

~ react-native run-ios

# or

~ react-native run-android

To populate the database with your conference speakers

1. Sign up in the app after following the previous steps

2. Open the AppSync console:

~ amplify console api

3. Click on Queries to open the GraphiQL Editor. When prompted to "Login with User Pools", you can login with your new username and use the aws_user_pools_web_client_id located in aws-exports.js for the ClientId.

4. Create a new talk with the following GraphQL mutation:

mutation createTalk {
  createTalk(input: {
    name: "Performance In React Native",
    summary: "In this talk, we will look at the various tips and tricks for taking full advantage of React Native and using the performance attributes of the new architecture.",
    speakerName: "Ram Narasimhan",
    speakerBio: "Software Engineer at Facebook",
    time: "9:00 AM - 9:30 AM",
    timeStamp: "1573491600",
    date: "November 10",
    location: "Armory",
    speakerAvatar: "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/875450414161772544/UjefWmmL_400x400.jpg"
  }) {
    id name speakerBio speakerName speakerAvatar location date time timeStamp
  }
}

5. Query for all talks with the following GraphQL query:

query listTalks {
  listTalks {
    items {
      name
      summary
      speakerName
      speakerBio
      time
      timeStamp
      date
      location
      speakerAvatar
    }
  }
}

6. Update a talk with the following GraphQL mutation:

mutation updateTalk {
  updateTalk(input: {
    id: "<TALK_ID>"
    name: "Performance in React Native & GraphQL"
  }) {
    id name
  }
}

7. Delete a talk with the following GraphQL mutation:

mutation deleteTalk {
  deleteTalk(input: {
    id: "<TALK_ID>"
  }) {
    id
  }
}

To customize with your theme and logo

1. Open src/theme.js and replace the highlight & primary colors.

2. Replace src/assets/logo.jpg with your logo.

To customize the GraphQL schema

This schema can be edited. If your event needs additional fields, you can update the backend by doing the following:

1. Update the schema (located at amplify/backend/api/rnconfinabox/schema.graphql).

2. Redeploy the back end:

~ amplify push