ImageKit React Native Tutorial

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Installation

Setup the frontend app

Install packages:

npm install

Start Metro:

npx react-native start

Run the app in ios simulator (You need to have Xcode installed):

npx react-native run-ios

Run the app in android simulator (You need to have Android Studio installed):

npx react-native run-android

To run the upload component you will have to 1 - Replace your Imagekit endpoint, public key in app/config/imagekit.js (these creds can be found in your Imagekit dashboard 2 - set up a backend server as shown below.

Setting up the sample backend server

There is a sample server present in the /server directory.

It takes the private key from .env file, so create a .env file by renaming the sample.env in /server and paste your authentication credentials into it.

Install packages:

cd server
npm install

To run this server:

npm start