Styling and Populating the Funbook App

In the previous chapter, we planned what surfaces and components will be needed for our app based on the design file. We also got comfortable previewing and debugging the app – at least I hope you got comfortable, my dear reader! Whether you’re using an iPhone or Android simulator or a real device with the Expo Go app, make sure you prefer checking your app that way. There’s no wrong answer for previewing apps built with Expo. In this chapter, we will style our surfaces and components. We will finally see an app that looks, hopefully, close to the design! After that, we will add some real data.

Here’s a very short list of what we’re planning to achieve in this chapter:

• Creating and styling components
• Pulling in data for the app

By the end of this chapter, we will have a good-looking app that fetches data from an external API. Feel free to follow closely or write your own code.