Building a full stack social media application with React Native, Apollo, and GraphQL

The application that you're going to build in this chapter will use a local GraphQL server to retrieve and mutate data that is available in the application. This application will display data from a social media feed and let you respond to these social media posts.

Using the camera with React Native and Expo

Next to displaying the posts that were created by the GraphQL server, you can also add a post yourself using a GraphQL mutation and send a text and an image as variables. Uploading images to your React Native application can be done by using either the camera to take an image or by selecting an image from your camera roll. For both...