Hello React-Rails Frontend

About this project

This is a demo application to practically experience the API connection between a Rails API application and a React-Redux application. This repository only has the files necessary to create the front end of this demo application. The hello-rails-back-end repository consists of the files necessary for the SQL database and the API.

🛠 Built With

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and ReactJS

Key Features

Describe between 1-3 key features of the application.

A demo app for practicing the rendering of data in React from an SQL database via Rails API.

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💻 Getting Started

To clone the repository in local environment try following steps.

Prerequisites

A web browser like Google Chrome.
A code editor like Visual Studio Code with Git and Node.js.

You can check if Git is installed by running the following command in the terminal.

$ git --version

Likewise for Node.js and npm for package installation.

$ node --version && npm --version

Setup

Clone the repository using this link.

Install

In the terminal, go to your file directory and run this command.

$ git clone https://github.com/PrangonGhose/hello-rails-front-end.git

Get into development

In the terminal, run these commands to get into development.

$ cd bookstore-with-react

$ npm init -y

$ npm install (install dependencies)

$ npm run build (create the optimized for production)

$ npm start (run the app locally)