ignite-boilerplate-kos

Ignite Boilerplate ("Kos", based on "Andross")

The tried and true boilerplate for Infinite Red opinions

Currently includes:

• React Native 0.57.7 (but you can change this if you want to experiment)
• React Navigation
• Redux
• Redux Sagas
• Eslint rules
• Flow
• Screens/components generator

Quick Start

When you've installed the Ignite CLI, you can get started with this boilerplate like this:

ignite new App -b ignite-boilerplate-kos

Boilerplate walkthrough

Your App folder is where most of the goodies are found in an Ignite Next app. Let's walk through them in more detail. Start with Containers/App.js (described below) and work your way down the walkthrough in order.

Containers

Containers are (mostly) full screens, although they can be sections of screens or application containers.

• App.js - your main application. We create a Redux store and configure it here
• RootContainer.js - main view of your application. Contains your status bar and navigation component
• LaunchScreen.js - this is the first screen shown in your application. It's loaded into the Navigation component
• Styles - styling for each of the above containers and screens

To generate a new Container or Screen you can use the following generator commands:

• ignite g screen New - Will create a NewScreen.js and also a Styles/NewScreenStyle.js. Important to mention that the screen generator will add the Screen on the file/class name to make easier to identify.

Those commands will also add the new container to the navigations file.

Navigation

Your primary and other navigation components reside here.

• AppNavigation.js - loads in your initial screen and creates your menu(s) in a StackNavigation
• Styles - styling for the navigation
• ReduxNavigation.js - This file contains the core navigation of your application. If you ever change your launch screen, make sure to change it also at if (nav.routes.length === 1 && (nav.routes[0].routeName === 'LaunchScreen')) {, otherwise you may encounter navigation problems with the Android back button!

Components

React components go here...pretty self-explanatory. We won't go through each in detail -- open each file to read the comments and view the code.

To generate a new Component you can use the following generator commands:

• ignite g component New - Will create a New.js and also a Styles/NewStyle.js.
• ignite g component path/New - The same as above, but will use a relative path
• ignite g component --folder path - An alternative to ignite g component path/index
• ignite g component --folder path new - An alternative to ignite g component relativePath/New

Themes

Styling themes used throughout your app styles.

• ApplicationStyles.js - app-wide styles
• Colors.js - defined colors for your app
• Fonts.js - defined fonts for your app
• Images.js - loads and caches images used in your app
• Metrics.js - useful measurements of things like navBarHeight

Config

Initialize and configure things here.

• AppConfig.js - simple React Native configuration here
• DebugConfig.js - define how you want your debug environment to act
• ReactotronConfig.js - configures Reactotron in your project (Note: this will be extracted into a plugin in the future)
• ReduxPersist.js - configures Redux Persist (Note: this will be extracted into a plugin in the future)

Fixtures

Contains json files that mimic API responses for quicker development. These are used by the Services/FixtureApi.js object to mock API responses.

Redux, Sagas

Contains a preconfigured Redux and Redux-Sagas setup. Review each file carefully to see how Redux interacts with your application.

Here again we have generators to help you out. You just have to use one of the following:

• ignite g redux Amazing - Will generate and link the redux for Amazing.
• ignite g saga Amazing - The same as above, but for the Sagas

Services

Contains your API service and other important utilities for your application.

• Api.js - main API service, giving you an interface to communicate with your back end
• ExamplesRegistry.js - lets you view component and Ignite plugin examples in your app
• FixtureApi.js - mocks your API service, making it faster to develop early on in your app
• ImmutablePersistenceTransform.js - part of the redux-persist implementation (will be removed)
• RehydrationServices.js - part of the redux-persist implementation (will be removed)

Lib

We recommend using this folder for modules that can be extracted into their own NPM packages at some point.

Images

Contains actual images (usually png) used in your application.

Transforms

Helpers for transforming data between API and your application and vice versa. An example is provided that you can look at to see how it works.

Tests

This folder (located as a sibling to App) contains sample Jest snapshot and unit tests for your application.

If you would like to have the ignite generate command include the generation of tests when available, add "test": "jest" or "test": "ava" to ./ignite/ignite.json, depending on the test runner you are using.