React Native Challenge

Before downloading the repo:

• Make sure you have React Native CLI configured.
• Yarn installed

Before Running the app

Cloning

On your console, run: Inside the repo folder install the dependencies by running:

git clone git@github.com:Kyonru/react-native-challenge.git

Installing dependencies

1. Inside the repo folder install the dependencies by running:

yarn

2. Go to the ios folder, and install the dependencies:

cd ios/
pod install

3. return to the original folder:

cd ..

Running the app

• Make sure you have xcode installed.
• Make sure you have android studio installed.

iOS

I strongly recommend runing the app from xcode, by opening xcode, and opening the project named: reactNativeChallenge.xcworkspace which is inside ios/reactNativeChallenge.xcworkspace, since if there is any error of any dependency that is needed, errors are more userfriendly on xcode than the terminal.

Anyway, on the project folder do:

1. yarn ios-release, this will open a simulator and install the release version of the app.
2. for development use: yarn ios

Android

I recommend opening the project at least once in android studio, to check if any dependency is needed.

You need an android Emulator running, or an device connected with developer options enabled.

Anyway, on the project folder do:

1. yarn android-release
2. for development use: yarn android

Dependencies & Libraries

All the dependencies added to the project are:

typescript: because I like it.

Needed for navigation:

• @react-native-community/masked-view
• react-native-gesture-handler
• react-native-reanimated
• react-native-safe-area-context
• react-native-screens
• react-navigation
• react-navigation-stack

Basically all these library were needed to be able to use the stack navigation on react-navigation that it's being used on the app. Since the app was simple and small, I decided to use react-navigation.

lodash.debounce: Used to avoid multiple calls to an actions. This is only the debounce function from loadash, not the entire package. ex.: - Opening multiple screen by tapping the button multiple times - Calling the api every time a new letter is entered

react-native-linear-gradient: Used to display a gradient in the the background of the screens

react-native-vector-icons: Used to display icons in the app, the arrows, the cocktail, the search icon.

As it was requested in the requirements I used redux/react-redux. But I added some other libraries to better manage my store and information usage:

redux-thunk: To be able to make asynchronous dispatches of actions, in this way I was able to call the api and dispatch the received data.

reselect: Used to get info from the store, this libary helps to avoid using a lot of dot channing to keep a cleaner code, and also these selectors, implements memoization of the data, that can help with performance in some cases.

Things that can be done to improve performance

1. Using libraries focused on high amount of data like:

• recyclerlistview
• fast-image -> configuring caching

2. Change the search to be used with redux, and the selectors to make the memoization and the caching more effective
3. Adding Pagination / Infinity scroll
4. Waiting for the user to finish writting before making an api call (Which I'm doing in this challenge 😊)
5. Avoid extra rendering of the list items by usign PureComponent and not breaking its principles, avoiding conditional rendering.