Help Getting Started

[killianarts]

I'm trying to make my first Hyperview app. I followed the instructions on the Getting Started guide. After some trial and error, I found that I could access the demo backend by changing the baseUrl setting in demo/app.config.ts to the address provided by Expo when running yarn start. Cool.

Now I want to connect my own Laravel backend to the Hyperview client, but if I change the previous baseUrl setting to the address/endpoint of my Laravel backend (http://127.0.0.1:8000/hv), I can't access the backend.

The hypermedia.systems book talks about changing the ENTRY_POINT_URL in demo/src/constants.js, but that file no longer exists. This seems to be a relatively new development since you seemed to be talking about it in Nov last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=bH2JflLEGy0

My main goal is to simply display a hello world Hyperview screen from my Laravel backend. Secondarily, I'd like to understand a bit better which parts of this repo are the essentials of the Hyperview client that I need to make my own app. I'm just trying to orient myself in this new world of mobile apps.

[hgray-instawork]

@killianarts, sorry about the confusion. We did recently make some changes to our demo application setup. You should be able to change the baseUrl in the app.config.ts file located in the root of the demo folder.

Please let us know if that solves the issue for you. In the meantime, we will work on updating our documentation to make note of this update.

[killianarts]

Thank you. I still had trouble accessing my own endpoint after setting baseUrl to localhost. To access the demo app, I set baseUrl to http://192.168.0.44:8081, the address that Metro watches on. However, to access my own Laravel endpoint, I had to change the baseUrl to http://127.0.0.1:8081--making Laravel open on point 8081 instead of the default 8000 (I get a Network Error when opening on any port other than 8081)--and then setting the entrypointUrl in demo/App.tsx to "baseUrl + /hv" rather than "baseUrl + /hyperview/public/index.xml".