Tweet search

Simple react native app that allows you to search for tweets.

Running

1. Create your local twitter server:

Create a new app on https://dev.twitter.com/ and record the consumer key and secret in a twitter-config.json file somewhere. This file should containing at least the following keys:

{
  "consumerKey": "<paste consumer key here>",
  "consumerSecret": "<paste consumer secret here>"
}

Install twitter-proxy npm package. This handles the oauth twitter api requests and simplifies browser requests to avoid the need for a dedicated server. Start the twitter proxy referencing the config.json file you created earlier. You can now make proxied api requests from http://localhost:7890/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=

yarn global add twitter-proxy
twitter-proxy twitter-config.json

2. Clone this project and install dependencies with yarn or npm install

git clone [email protected]:nairobijs/react-native-tweets.git
cd react-native-tweets
yarn

3. Connect your android device to your machine via USB. Make sure you have USB debugging enabled

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remote-debugging/

4. Open this link on Google Chrome and forward port 7890 traffic to localhost:7890 on your android device. The device should be detected on this page.

chrome://inspect/#devices

5. Run the project

react-native run-android

Contribute

Feel free to contribute some code that can improve the looks or functionality of this demo app.

Suggestions:

+ Loading state button
+ Pull down to refresh current query
+ Pull down to retry failed searches (network request)
+ Display tweep - (tweet account holder) name and image
+ Display tweet uploaded image
+ Display tweet stats - retweets, favourites
+ Favorite action
+ Retweet action
+ Clear tags
+ Tests with Jest

Credits

Credits go to Chris McDonald for the original web version and his video demo on Async in Redux

The initial project scaffold code was generated with create-react-app.