🌎 TastyTrade

Americans waste roughly $400 billion each year on food.
Worldwide, food waste accounts for 11% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions!

TastyTrade is a react-native, food-sharing app with a goal to help
reduce the hundreds of billions of pounds of food waste occurring globally.

Features

    • Location-based Food Posts!

    • Google Authentication

    • 1:1 Chats

Requirements

• Install NPM.
  
  
• Make sure to put the .env file in ../frontend after retrieving it from a safe location
  (You'll need to make a firebase project off of this repo).
  
  Sample .env file:

# No Quotes.
EXPO_PUBLIC_API_KEY=
EXPO_PUBLIC_AUTH_DOMAIN=
EXPO_PUBLIC_PROJECT_ID=
EXPO_PUBLIC_STORAGE_BUCKET=
EXPO_PUBLIC_MESSAGING_SENDER_ID=
EXPO_PUBLIC_APP_ID=
EXPO_PUBLIC_MEASUREMENT_ID=
EXPO_PUBLIC_ANDROID_CLIENT_ID=
EXPO_PUBLIC_WEB_CLIENT_ID=

• EAS Account (You'll need to sign in inside a terminal).

Installation

1. Switch to ../frontend (Using cd command) after cloning the repository.
   
   
2. Install the EAS client and Expo globally.

      npm install --global eas-cli
      npm install --global expo

3. Install dependencies using NPM:

   npm install

Starting the application

Using android emulator or physical device (AVD [Installable through Android Studio]):

   eas build --profile development --platform android
   npx expo start
   press a

EAS will build an Android APK on the cloud, which you can then download to your mobile device through the QR code. Connect your mobile device with a cable, and the app should connect to the expo server.

Otherwise, if your emulator is open, it should automatically connect to the app.