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LAB | IronBeers

Since beer is one of the most consumed drinks between Ironhackers 🍻 , our mission here is to create an app to showcase some of the best-handcrafted beers, but not just that - to save some as well so the rest of Ironhack community is informed 😌. Our end goal is creating something like this:

Requirements

  • Fork this repo
  • Clone this repo

Submission

  • Upon completion, run the following commands:

    git add .
git commit -m "done"
git push origin master

  • Create Pull Request so your TAs can check up your work.

Introduction

We will be building a React app so the API (server) needs to be built somewhere for us, right? You are completely right, it's deployed on heroku and the root fo the API is: https://ih-beer-api.herokuapp.com/beers. The available endpoints are the following:

Method Endpoint Response (200) Action
GET / [beers] Get all the beers from the DB
GET /:id { beer } Get the a single/specific beer
GET /random { beer } Get a random beer from the DB
POST /new { message: "New beer successfully saved to database!"} Create a new beer (the fields are specified in the instructions)
GET /search?q={query} [beers] Get beers from the DB whose name contains the search term. For example /search?q=lager searches for all beers with lager in the name.

On each iteration, we will explain which endpoint you should use!

The IronBeers project will include the following features:

  • A Home page with three different options:
    • All Beers
    • Random Beer
    • New Beer
  • A List Beers page where you should display all the beers
  • A Single Beer page to display the details of the beer the user clicked on
  • A Random Beer page to display a Random Beer
  • A New Beer page to show a form where a user can create new beers

Instructions

❗ At the very beginning we will offer you to shoot for the stars: as a bonus focus on mobile first design! As we said this is bonus, so it's up to you. 👍

Iteration 1: Create the App

Well, at this point, this comes natural: we will use create-react-app to build a new app. Feel free to name it as you wish, but if you need some inspiration, we called it Reactive BeersJS.

Iteration 2: Home Page

Create a Home Page. This view should include three links to separate pages:

  • /beers
  • /random-beer
  • /new-beer

Feel free to design it however you wish, but here is how we did it:

Iteration 3: Header

On every view (except for the home), we should add a header with a link to the root of the app.

Iteration 4: List the Beers

On the /beers route, we should display all the beers from the database. So, in this case, you need to "hit" the API's route https://ih-beer-api.herokuapp.com/beers and the API will return an array of beers.

Hint: The array of beers is array of objects. We strongly advise you to console log the response from the API so you can see the structure of it.

You should display the following from each of the beers:

  • image
  • name
  • tagline
  • contributed_by
  • Also, add the link to check the details of each beer. The link should navigate to /beers/:beerId.

The first time you call the API, it might take a bit to respond. It's hosted on Heroku, and it goes to sleep after 30 minutes, you know! 😉

Iteration 5: Single Beer

When a user click on one of the beers, you should display a detailed view of it, including the following fields:

  • image
  • name
  • tagline
  • first_brewed
  • attenuation_level
  • description
  • contributed_by

Again, we strongly recommend to console log the response from the API.

Iteration 6: Random Beer

On the /random-beer route, we will render a single beer that will be retrieved from the database. The endpoint will do all the job for us, all we need to do is to call https://ih-beer-api.herokuapp.com/beers/random. We should receive an object including all the info about a beer. The same way we did with the Single Beer view, we should render the following fields:

  • image
  • name
  • tagline
  • first_brewed
  • attenuation_level
  • description
  • contributed_by

Iteration 7: Create New Beer

Finally, on the /new-beer route (remember, this is you react route, you're displaying the form on this route), we should render a form where user can create new beers. The form should include the following fields:

  • name - must be type text
  • tagline - must be type text
  • description - must be type text
  • first_brewed - must be type text
  • brewers_tips - must be type text
  • attenuation_level - must be type number !!!
  • contributed_by - must be type text

Why we pointed out the type? Well, since we already console log response from the API, we could notice that all the fields are strings but attenuation_level, which is number. Using our knowledge from module II, we can make conclusion that in the beer model all the properties are type String except attenuation_level, which is type Number. When you have built the form, you should do a POST request to https://ih-beer-api.herokuapp.com/beers/new, passing all the data on the body object. If everything went ok, you would receive a 200 response from the server.

Notice that the fields on the body should have those specific names so the API can create a new beer.

What could go wrong?: You inputted string instead of number in the attenuation_level field and the server sent you 500 error. Since we didn't cover how to upload images yet, don't worry about it now - the API will assign a random image to the new beer. 🍺

(Extra) Bonus Iteration: Filter the Beers

Yes! One endpoint left! On the /beers route, add an input where users can search for beers. Every time a new letter is typed, you should call to https://ih-beer-api.herokuapp.com/beers/search?q={query} passing the value of the input in the q param.

We are done! 🏆

Awesome! Grab a beer (if you're not underage 😉 )! Now you are a React Warrior, keep training to become the Ninja!

Happy coding! ❤️