DALA746 / project-happy-thoughts

For this project, I've been digging into React, and a deeper understanding of useEffect and useState.

Happy Thoughts

This project's goals is to learn about a React component's lifecycle and how to react to that. We looked at how to react to changes in state or a component mounting using useEffect. We worked with a Happy Thoughts API which showcases previously posted thoughts, gives us the possibility to post new thoughts and also give likes to the already existing ones 💌

Update: I have now created my own Happy Thoughts API to use for this project: it's an Express API using MongoDB Atlas and deployed to Heroku ✌

Frontend: https://project-happy-thoughts-api-production.up.railway.app

Backend: https://github.com/DALA746/project-happy-thoughts-api

What I learned

• What component lifecycle means.
• How to use the useEffect hook in React to perform actions when components mount, unmount, or when state changes.
• How to call APIs from React and put the data into state.
• What it's like to work with an API which you both send and receive data from.

View it here

https://happy-thoughts-react-project.netlify.app/