This project is meant to test my skills with React Native. It gathers data from theCockTailDB.
Tested on Android only (I don't own a mac). It should, however, run without any issues and with native look thanks to native-base
clone this repository then run yarn and react-native run-android
This project follows StandardJS guidelines.
No tests. A shame, I know. They will come in time.
This was a fun weekend project. There was a number of interesting issues to solve that gave me some ideias that I could use in future projects.
Here are some of the highlights in this journey so far:
TheCockTailDB is awfully slow! It was quite a pain to explore the api with requests taking +50 seconds to finish.
I've wrote a simple Cache object that writes the results of API calls into AsyncStorage and a wrapper around fetch to load data from it before trying to call the api. That worked wonderfully, and as a plus, we get the data even if the device doesn't have an active internet connection, or the api is offline.
I also wrote a wrapper component that caches images loaded from the api and displays a rotating spinner while it tries to load it from the storage or from the internet.
I haven't abstracted this to a general component yet. Basically, all the containers in this project loads data from a remote source or the storage and displays a spinner while it is working on it, or a error message with a button to try again.
The structure in all of them is the same, and will be probably my next step in this project when I have the time (along with snapshot tests)