Blog App

A simple blog app built with React-Native.

Motivation

This was a flex-week project in the full-time Thinkful Web Development Bootcamp.

The goal was to learn a new framework and create a project with it within one week. This was achieved here by creating a mobile application using React-Native.

The app has limited functionality at present, including:

• Create, Read and Delete blog posts
• Authentication persistance via json web tokens

Technologies

Tech	Description
CSS	UI Styling
React Native	Enables React to run natively on mobile devices using native UI components
Express	Server framework for Node
MongoDB	No-SQL database

Develop

To develop this app:

• clone the repo
• run npm install
• open Xcode if on OSX and developing for iOS
  • other development environments are available for other platforms
• a prototype can be deployed through appetize.io. A helpful tutorial to build the app for appetize deployment is available here.

To develop this app's server side:

• comment out the fetch('https://portfolio-express.herokuapp.com/blog/' calls in
  • Register.js
  • Posts.js
  • Login.js
  • BlogPostForm.js and replace with the commented out line above these calls. The url will include fetch('http://localhost:8080/blog/'
• the server side is currently a submodule of a larger portfolio server
• to develop it locally:
  • clone, configure and start the app's express server
  • comment out or delete app.use('/med', medReminder) and app.use('/elearn', eLearn) in server.js
  • comment out or delete files:
    • medReminder.js
    • emailer.js
    • box.js
    • eLearn.js
  • add .env file, containing:
    • SECRET :: a string that will serve as your json web token private key
    • DATABASE_URI :: connection to your mongo database 'mongodb://<database name>'
  • start server with node server.js
  • server will now run at http://localhost:8080 by default

Contributers

• jpke