HackerNews

Hackernews App

Before you start

You need to setup following environment in your system to run react-native project.

follow the instructions at https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html.
Install Java 8 and set its path globally in your system Link
Download and install Android studio and set its SDK path globally in your system Link
Download and install node v12.X.X Link
Install Android Studio Link
Install Xcode (Mac Only)
Download and install Watchman (Mac Only) using brew install watchman
Install react-native-cli using npm install -g react-native-cli
Download and install VSCode editor Link

iOS Xcode all set up e.g. you can build and run a sample app.
Android SDK all set up e.g. you can build and run a sample app.
Clone the project from the respective repo
Go in to folder hacker_news_app by cd hacker_news_app, install npm by npm install and then run npx react-native run-ios

Create on file inside android folder with name local.properties mention your sdk path following way sdk.dir=path of your sdk
Now run Android application using npm run
In case Metro Bundler does not start automatically so use npm start to start npm in your system

Open HackerNews.xcworkspace and run project from Xcode
In case Metro Bundler does not start automatically so use npm start to start npm in your system

If you get an error after getting the latest with "git pull", then you might need to do some manual intervention due to whatever was just changed:

Try "npm install" to get latest packages.
If your you are getting confusing errors building/running from your IDE, try to do it from the command line to see if you can see errors more obviously. E.g. 'npx react-native run-ios'.
To change environment use 'npm run env:prod or npm run env:uat'.

if you face some problems you can follow the below steps:

When getting the error that metro server not connected, go to the parent reactnative folder:

For iOS:
npm start --reset-cache

For Android Device:
adb reverse tcp:8081 tcp:8081
npm start --reset-cache

If you encounter an error in iOS regarding the xcode app version, run following command:

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app

make sure you have the application name as "Xcode" and it is placed inside Applications directory.

Do not use names like "XCode 11"