candidate-apollo-app 🤵

candidate-apollo-app is a simple CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) capable mobile app powered by React Native with Apollo GraphQL x Express as backend server and MongoDB x mongoose as database. (aka MERN stack)

It's essentially two applications:

• Frontend mobile app (./client)
• Backend server (./server)

Documentation

You can find the docs (like app structure, features and notes) at ./docs

Installation

candidate-apollo-app requires Node.js and a mobile phone or emulator (preferably Android) to run.

Run start_project.bat if you're using Windows, or open your favorite Terminal and run these commands. (every terminal is starting from root directory!)

Before running start_project.bat be sure to create mongodb_path.txt that contains the directory of your MongoDB database in the first line

Also, before running anything add your own environment variable file (.env) in both ./client & ./server, see .env.example for reference

Also also, for Skill's page tiles, add your own tileplaceholder.jpg at ./client/img/ (temporary solution)

Start up MongoDB:

$ mongod --dbpath="path"

Server:

$ cd server
$ npm run start

Client First Terminal:

$ cd client
$ yarn start

Client Second Terminal:

$ cd client
$ npx react-native run-android/run-ios

(optional) If you're running on an Android emulator:

$ cd client
$ adb reverse tcp:8080 tcp:8080

Note that the server uses port 8080!

Development

Want to contribute? Great! But we are not currently accepting any contributors as this is a short-sighted program requested by a company for me to test my programming prowessness!

Just fork it if you want!

Background & Thoughts

I graduated near the end of 2020 with a neat Computer Science degree from Monash University. So I do what most fresh grads do, I apply to jobs. And one company requested me to write a test project (CRUD) with the technologies listed above (except the database, they allowed me to choose what to use), all within a week. I didn't know most of these techs (it was on purpose by them :o). I really only knew React at the time, and have just learned how to use Express three days prior. Also, I have spent the first two days configuring the project and learning the basics as I go. Naturally I am worried and stressed, so I went more spaghettier than I would have liked in terms of writing code. But at least I have learned much from this exprience!

Time taken: 7 days (23th December 2020 - 30th December 2020)

Acknowledgement

LavaX for forcing me to learn faster.

License

GNU General Public License v3.0