Tailwind CSS has refined the way we think about styling web components and has been greatly adopted by industry players, companies, and developers.

In this article, I will be showing how to use Tailwind CSS with our favourite cross-platform mobile framework: React Native! We will be doing this by recreating the WhatsApp Chat UI.

I am excited, I know you are, so let's not waste time and begin!

Prerequisites

Before we begin I am expecting you to have the following set up at your end:

1. Node.js
2. Npm
3. Expo on your mobile device or an emulator we could test with

Installation

I will…

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Installing Dependencies

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npm init -y
npm i mongoose crypto jest mongodb-memory-server

So what do we have here?

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crypto: We use this to hash our password, you would see its use…

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Edit Collection

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What is a ChatBot?

In its mere definition, it is a software application used to conduct an online chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in place of providing direct contact with a live human agent. It has been used in different contexts ranging from customer support, book tickets for movie/show, banking(UBA Leo) just to mention a few…

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I searched for help online but couldn’t find any that gave the full guide to solving this problem, most only provided solutions for build status while ignoring the code coverage aspect. I had to figure this out and time was running out.

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