bsky-social-app/README.md

Social App

In-progress social app.

Uses:

• React Native
• React Native for Web
• React Navigation
• MobX and MobX State Tree
• Async Storage

Build instructions

• Setup your environment using the react native instructions.
• After initial setup:
  • cd ios ; pod install
• Start the dev servers
  • yarn dev-pds
  • yarn dev-wallet
• Run the dev app
  • iOS: yarn ios
  • Android: yarn android
  • Web: yarn web
• Tips
  • npx react-native info Checks what has been installed.
  • On M1 macs, you need to exclude "arm64" from the target architectures
    • Annoyingly this must be re-set via XCode after every pod install

Various notes

Env vars

Set using the .env file or using bash.

REACT_APP_AUTH_LOBBY = 'http://localhost:3001'

Build behaviors

The metro.config.js file rewrites a couple of imports. This is partly to work around missing features in Metro, and partly to patch the bundle. Affected imports include:

• ucans
• one-webcrypto

Cryptography

For native builds, we must provide a polyfill of webcrypto. We use react-native-securerandom for the CRNG and msrcrypto for the cryptography.

NOTE Keys are not currently stored securely.

Polyfills

./platform/polyfills.*.ts adds polyfills to the environment. Currently this includes:

• webcrypto
• TextEncoder / TextDecoder