vinnyjth / ephesus

LCBC Church Mobile App built on Apollos

Apollos Template Project

Instructions for starting your own app.

1. Forking this repo

Forking this repo via forking this project on GitHub is not recommended, as it will tie your project directly to our repo. Instead, we recommend taking the following steps.

1. Clone this repo locally.
2. From the root of this repo, rm -rf .git
3. Intialize a new git repository, git init.

2. Setting up your environment.

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Instructions for co-development with Apollos Apps

First of all, to those of you who remember, the Monorepo, I'm sorry, stick with me. You'll need to change how you work slightly now that the app themselves have been split out, but you'll still get the same great features.

Setting up "linked" development

1. From this repo, cd into apollos-church-api and apolloschurchapp and run yarn install.
2. From this repo, run yarn pods from the root.
3. Edit your .env. in apolloschurchapp, and add a relative or direct path to your apollos-apps root under the APOLLOS_APPS_LOCATION variable. ex: APOLLOS_APPS_LOCATION=../../apollos-prototype.
4. From the root of apollos-apps, run yarn link-packages. You only need to run this once
5. From the root of this repo, run yarn link-packages. You only need to run this once

Running the linked environments

1. If you are working on API packages, cd into the apollos-apps project and run yarn build:api-watch. If you don't do this, you can still run the app, but you won't get live updates on changes to the API packages.
2. From this repo, run yarn start. Just like the good old days.

FAQ

Q: Why linkemon? How is it different than nodemon?
A: linkemon will refresh the app if symlinked (yarn linked) packages are changed.

Q: Who do I yell at if things are broken?
A: @vinnyjth

Q: Do I need to set that APOLLOS_APPS_LOCATION variable?
A: Yes. Because metro doesn't support symlinks, we need to use wml, which needs to know where the packages live on disk.

Q: I'm getting errors when starting the bundler saying folders are not being watched!
A: watchman watch-del-all and then try yarn start from this repo again.

Q: What if I need to add a package to either repo?
A: In this case the node modules have changed and you'll need to yarn unlink/link from this repo again.