Basic Routes Lab

Learning Goals

Use the <Route> component to display different components based on the URL
Use the <Navbar> component to allow client-side navigation

Introduction

In this lab we are going to build out an application that has routes for a Home Page, Actors Page, Movies Page and Directors Page. Our goal is to provide routes and links for these 4 pages.

This is what our app should look like when we are done with this lab:

Let's work through this one component at a time.

Setup

Our src folder contains the following:

src/
├── data.js
├── index.js
└── components/
    ├── App.js
    ├── Actors.js
    ├── Directors.js
    ├── Home.js
    ├── Movies.js
    └── NavBar.js

All of the file and module imports are done for you, so you just need to focus on the JSX for these components.

index.js

Our index.js file is completed for us. It loads the BrowserRouter component from React Router, as well as App as the top level component.

data.js

This file contains seed data for Actors, Movies, and Directors.

Components

App

Inside this component, we'll need to render our Navbar and four React Router Route components with following paths:

/movies: should render the Movies component
/directors: should render the Directors component
/actors: should render the Actors component
/: should render the Home component

Navbar

This component needs to render four NavLink components. They will be for /, /movies, /directors, /actors, in this order (test checks for this).

Home

This component should render the text Home Page in an <h1>.

Movies

This component should render the text Movies Page in an <h1>, and make a new <div> for each movie. The <div> should contain the movie's title, time and a <ul> with a list of its genres, each within their own <li>.

Directors

This component should render the text Directors Page in an <h1>, and make a new <div> for each director. The <div> should contain the director's name and a <ul> with a list of their movies.

Actors

This component should render the text Actors Page in an <h1>, and make a new <div> for each actor. The <div> should contain the actor's name and a <ul> with a list of their movies.

Note: The tests will count how many <div>s are nested inside your Movies, Directors, and Actors components. So to get tests to pass, you must create exactly one <div> for each movie, director, or actor, and no additional nested <div>s in those components.

Resources

React Router

cseiter/Phase2ReactRoute