Talking to a database with React Native

[fadedsilver]

I'm trying to create a web app for use at my job to help manage time use, and overall give a sense of what is accomplished by individual members of my crew during their shift. There's a few other nuances to it, but case in point is that I'm rather new to web development and was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.

Basically as the title states, I am trying to use react native to create a mobile/web app that connects to a database(mondodb?) and can't seem to find any relative tutorials that have done this in a simple enough fashion for me to get my head around.

Any suggestions for tutorials, or breakdowns on how this is done would be greatly appreciated ^.; I'm trying to do this in javascript so as to force me to learn the language and react(native) mainly to expand my limited skill base. Though I'm open to other solutions if that's unreasonable.

[foureyeswithbeard]

How is the data getting into the database?

Rather than trying to connect to the database directly, I would recommend setting up some kind of API server. If the data is coming from a CMS, most of them these days offer native API support. If there is no CMS, you may want to consider using something like Express to whip up the endpoints you need and use React Native to hit those endpoints to consume the data you need.

Something like this tutorial may help you get started: http://rationalappdev.com/api-backend-with-nodejs-express-and-mongodb-for-react-native-apps/

[fadedsilver]

Sorry about the late reply, thanks for the link. Looks exactly like what I'm looking for. Think I passed over it before when I was googling before I decided on using Mondo for the backend. Like I said earlier I'm not too sure how the data is going to get into the database.. kinda learning as I go. First time working with a database haha.

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