/github-feed-react

A basic React app that fetches a user's public Github activity

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Search GitHub events by username

Demo: https://young-stream-95005.herokuapp.com/

Basically, I'm trying to replicate a user's activity feed on GitHub, but mostly this was an exercise to fetch an external API on initial load via React. I've recently expanded on this by creating a form to fetch different users.

I made this demo as part of my learning process and hope that it will help someone else along their path in learning React. There's still lots to do here since we are basically just hitting an external endpoint and not really doing anything dynamic in the UI.

Credits

This was bootstrapped with the create-react-app project. Read their docs to find out how this is organized: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app.

I learned all of my React with Wes Bos' online React For Beginners tutorial. https://reactforbeginners.com

To Do

  • Use fetch() API instead of jQuery - seems a bit much to load jQuery just for an API call.
  • Create a filter allow users to fetch certain types of data
  • Create a form to make the username dynamic
  • Show the user info
  • Add localStorage