PDA - News

1. Installation

1.1 Prerequisites

1.1.1 Application development

• Expo account
• Expo GO installed on your iOS/Android device (SDK >48)
• Node.js LTS Runtime installed on your development machine
• Watchman installed on your MacOS development machine

1.1.2 Back-end development

• Python installed on your development machine (>3.10)

1.2 Running the application for the first time

# If you're a Windows user, you need to allow connection from node.exe process in firewall.
# If you're a MacOS user, you need `watchman` installed on your machine.

# Install dependencies.
npm install

# Check whether you're logged in with your expo account on your machine.
npm run expo whoami

# Login if you're not.
npm run expo login

# ! Fill required env vars from .env.example into .env (See 1.3)

# Run development server.
npm run start

# Scan QR code in the terminal with your iOS/Android device.

1.3 Environment variables

Name	Purpose
SUPABASE_URL	URL of supabase server
SUPABASE_PUBLIC_ANON	Public key for supabase server
SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE	Private key with high privilages for supabase server
NEWSDATA_API_KEY	API key for newsdata

1.4 Code climate

• Install all recommended extensions (if you're using VSCode), recommended extensions are in .vscode/extensions.json