This repository contains an Expo supported React Native codebase. The bulk of structure defining scripts can be found within the src/ directory. Within the 'src/` directory you will find 5 folders.

• components/ contains reusable elements throughout the application
• constants/ contains various static data used for mocking designs in place of a full fleshed out backend. Themes and Message data are stored in this directory.
• navigation/ is home to specifications for how each page component is linked to each other.
• screens/ is where each screen present in the application is stored and defined.
• utils/ contains an assortment of niche functions used throughout the rest of the codebase.

Upon running yarn start the entrypoint for the application is found within App.tsx.

1. Download and install NodeJS LTS
2. Open Visual Studio Code and create a new terminal.
3. Install the following global libraries:

$ npm install --global expo-cli
$ npm install --global yarn

1. Clone this repository and open the folder in Visual Studio Code
2. Create a new terminal and execute yarn to install all project specific dependencies:

$ yarn install

This will create a new directory in the project folder called node_modules where a large collection of external JavaScript libraries will live. These packages are specified in the package.json file and automatically managed by Yarn

You can now start the local development server using:

$ yarn start

This will open the Expo CLI and present a QR Code in the terminal. You will need the Expo Go mobile app to access the application you are hosting. This page will hot-refresh as you make changes to the code base and output errors to your terminal.