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Mentored Airtable Tutorial

Goal

For this demo, mentored developers should learn to use the Airtable API and put to practice the content from their API lecture. Additionally, they'll build on their knowledge of React. Important points of the demo are state and effect hooks, properties of components, and APIs. Also go over .env files and the importance!

Conceptual Checklist

• How the use React hooks and the purpose of the state and effect hooks (State is a component memories | Effect is the side effect of a component)
• Properties are immutable, so how can we use State to bypass this and pass dynamic information down to components
• Why APIs are useful and the structure of requests (URLs, Response Fields, Headers, etc.)

TODOs

Go over the code in App.js with the developers and highlight important parts of code. For a challenge, encourage them to code alongside you! Create an env file as well for the devs that stores the token and other useful environment variables. There is a solution App.js in the directory ./solution/App.js.

TODO Checklist

• Send out appropriate API auth tokens, table ids, etc. and create the .env file (ASK YOUR PM)
• Go over the file structure of the React app (including the .env file)
• Remove the React strict mode tag in index.js
• Add a useEffect function such that when we initially mount, we make a request to the Airtable endpoint
• Create state to store the records queried, the tableIDs, and a global object to store the tableIDs
• Iterate through all records and create item box components for each one
• Add table switching functionality to the NavBar component when clicking

Notes

If Kennedy deletes the Airtable with the contents, please just create another one and put the tokens and other necessary variables in the .env file. You will be sharing these tokens and ids with the devs so scope it accordingly.

IMPORTANT: Please make sure to npm install after cloning the repo to install node_modules

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Getting Started with Create React App

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Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.

npm test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

npm run eject

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If you aren't satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.

Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you're on your own.

You don't have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn't feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn't be useful if you couldn't customize it when you are ready for it.

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