https://github.com/ashfurrow/pokemonpractice

Testbed for me to practice for coding interviews, try new tools, and experiment with coding patterns.
https://github.com/ashfurrow/pokemonpractice

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Testbed for me to practice for coding interviews, try new tools, and experiment with coding patterns.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ashfurrow/pokemonpractice
• Owner: ashfurrow
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-07-31T13:10:46.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-08-08T02:16:29.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-14T18:46:06.491Z (2 months ago)
• Language: TypeScript
• Size: 280 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Pokemon Practice

When interviewing Senior+ software developers, I've often seen them struggle when programming in fresh app environments. I get it – we are so used to working day-to-day in codebases that have been set up and fine-tuned that it's hard to start from scratch. We are so used to design systems, custom abstractions, linter configurations, etc that it's paralyzing to suddenly work "without a net", so to speak.

I'm currently interviewing and I wanted to make sure I was comfortable working in a fresh project, so I started this one. Pretty soon, though, I started tweaking things the way _I_ like them. So this repository is both a way for me to practice building something from scratch and a way for me to add tooling/systems/abstractions thoughtfully, from first principles.

This project is a React Native app (in [Expo](https://expo.dev)) that uses the [PokeAPI](https://pokeapi.co). I'm not trying to win any design awards, but I'd like the project to be more than _just_ functional. It should look nice, eventually.

I'll [blog](https://ashfurrow.com) about this soon, and you can check out the [open issues](https://github.com/ashfurrow/PokemonPractice/issues) for an idea of where this is going next.

## Project Setup

You need Xcode installed to run the iOS simualator. (Or Android Studio, either should work.) Otherwise, you'll need [node](https://nodejs.org) and [yarn](https://yarnpkg.com) installed.

```sh

# install node 18.12.0, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76157332/getting-jest-errors-typeerror-cannot-redefine-property-performance

# clone the repo

yarn # installs dependencies

yarn ios # runs in the iOS simulator

```