JetechNY / building-forms-lab

Set List Lab

Objectives

1. Use forms to create new elements and update the store.
2. Display a list of the new elements in a separate component.

Overview

Guess what - the bands are back! What we want is an application that allows us to add band names, and then have those band names instantly rendered below. We need to be incorporating Redux by dispatching actions and updating the store each time someone submits a new band.

So we will be creating two different React components, and each of them need to have access to our Redux store, either directly or through props. One of the components will be a form where we input our band name, and the other component will display the list of bands.

The createStore method and some basic setup has already been implemented for you.

Instructions

1. You will need to write the BandsContainer component. This component should act as your connection to the Redux store and should be a child of the App component. Any values we want to use from Redux as well as any actions we want to dispatch should be set up and available in BandsContainer so they can be passed down to other components.

2. You will need to write the BandInput component as a child of BandsContainer. This component should have a form with a text input and submit button. We would like to update this component's state each time the user types a new character in the input, stored as this.state.name. We will only update the Redux store's state when the user hits the submit button. The dispatched action required to initiate this update should be set up in BandsContainer and passed down as the prop addBand to BandInput.

3. You will also need to fill in the manageBand reducer located under ./src/reducers/manageBand.js. It will need to respond to an action of type 'ADD_BAND' and correspondingly concatenate a new band each time the action is dispatched.

4. Once you've got a form successfully dispatching actions and adding bands to your Redux store, write the necessary code to display each band name from the store. Band names should be listed in individual li elements.