Chinese Newcomers Service Center

This project is designed and developed by a team of UC Berkeley students through one of Cal Blueprint's project teams during the 2022-23 academic year.

Learn more about Chinese Newcomers Service Center and Cal Blueprint.

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

Check your installation of npm and node:

node -v
npm -v

This project requires node version 16.17.0.

We strongly recommend using a Node version manager like nvm (for Mac) or nvm-windows (for Windows) to install Node.js and npm. See Downloading and installing Node.js and npm.

Installation

1. Clone the repo & install dependencies
   1. Clone this repo
      • using SSH (recommended)

        git clone git@github.com:calblueprint/chinese-newcomers.git

      • using HTTPS

        git clone https://github.com/calblueprint/chinese-newcomers.git

   2. Enter the cloned directory

      cd chinese-newcomers

   3. Install Typescript:

      npm install -g typescript

   4. Install yarn:

      npm install -g yarn

   5. Install project dependencies. This command installs all packages from yarn.lock.

      yarn install

2. Set up secrets:
   1. In the project's root directory (chinese-newcomers/), create a new file named .env

      touch .env

   2. Copy the credentials from Blueprint's internal Notion (access is required) and paste them into the .env file.

Helpful resources

• GitHub: Cloning a Repository
• GitHub: Generating SSH keys

Development environment

• VSCode (recommended)
  1. Open the chinese-newcomers project in VSCode.
  2. Install recommended workspace VSCode extensions. You should see a pop-up on the bottom right to "install the recommended extensions for this repository".

Running the app

1. In the project directory, run:

    expo start

2. To test the app:
   • Expo Go (Recommended): download Expo Go on your phone, connect to same network as your laptop, and use your phone camera to scan the QR code displayed in the command line.
   • iOS Simulator: see Expo docs
   • Android Emulator: see Expo docs

Troubleshooting

Starting the expo app results in `FirebaseError: Firebase: Error (auth/invalid-api-key)` but .env exists with the correct credentials.

For whatever reason, sometimes the env variables don't get picked up, but adding the following line to firebaseApp.ts usually fixes it.

console.log(firebaseConfig);