/HTTP-AJAX

Primary LanguageJavaScript

HTTP/AJAX

Topics:

  • axios package
  • AJAX
  • Promises
  • Middleware
  • redux-promise package

Project Description

Initialize Project

  • Run npm i inside of the server folder to install its dependencies. Run node server.js to start the server.
  • Run create-react-app friends in in a SEPARATE folder to create your starter application.
  • npm i --save redux react-redux redux-promise axios This command will install the needed dependencies.
  • You will create a list of your friends using React and Redux.
  • The general flow of steps will be to create your store, create your reducers, create your containers, and then create the action creators.
  • You will need to use Redux Promise as a middleware inside of src/index.js.
  • Create two actions. One action will retrieve the friends list from the server. The second action will add a new friend to the friends list on the server.

State Tree

  • Your application should have an input field, a submit button, and a list of items that represents your friends list. Make each friend a separate component.
  • Your application's state tree should have a single property called friends. It should take the same form as the object shown below.
{
 friends: [],
}
  • Each friend item that is in the friends array should have the following format:
{
  name: 'Stephanie',
  age: 24,
  email: 'stephanie@gmail.com',
}

React

  • When you type a new friend's name into the input field and press the submit button you should call an action creator that adds a new friend item to the friends array on the application state tree.
  • When the user presses submit you will invoke the appropriate action creator which will then have its new action fed through all of the reducers.
  • You will display the friends list by creating a container that receives the application's friends array as a prop. That container then uses map to display the array.

Notes/Hints

  • You will only need one reducer. This reducer will control the friends array property on the state tree.
  • You will have several action creators. One for adding a new friend and another for retrieving the friends list from the server.
  • Containers require connect and a mapStateToProps(state) function to read from the state tree.
  • Actions require you to create a mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) function that you'll also pass to the connect function.

Extra Credit

  • In the requirements for this project, we implemented a GET operation and a POST operation. Add two more actions, one for making a PUT request, and the other for making a DELETE request.
  • Style the friends list and the input field and make everything look nice.
  • Expand the number of properties that you put on each friend object. Feel free to remove the dummy data on the server or modify it in any way.