iNaturalistID

This project is a React application where a user can interact with iNaturalist's API to browse the taxonomy of all species that the citizen science portal has information on. It also offers the possibility to take a quizz on the different species within a taxonomic group to hone your visual ID skills!

Check it out: https://minka-id.vercel.app/

Features

Exploring the taxonomy of the animals in iNaturalist:

Taking quizzes on all of the taxonomic groups for which iNaturalist has images:

Getting Started

This is an Expo app (React Native + react-native-web) that runs on web, iOS and Android from a single codebase.

Install dependencies and start the dev server:

pnpm install
pnpm start        # then press w / i / a
# or directly:
pnpm web
pnpm ios
pnpm android

Notes for native

• This project targets Expo SDK 54. react-native-maps and expo-location are bundled with Expo Go for SDK 54, so pnpm start + Expo Go is enough for day-to-day development.
• A development build (npx expo prebuild / expo run:*) is only needed once you require custom native config — most notably the Android Google Maps API key below, which Expo Go cannot pick up.
• iOS uses Apple Maps — no API key needed.
• Android uses Google Maps: add a Maps SDK API key to app.json under android.config.googleMaps.apiKey for the location picker map to render (requires a development build).
• The web build uses Leaflet instead of react-native-maps via platform-split files (LocationPickerMap.web.tsx / LocationPickerMap.native.tsx).