lizafloyd / react-omdb

OMDB api movie results rendered via React [react]

React OMDB

See Headers Below For Step By Step Outline

Note: each step has a corresponding commit with the implemented actions on the solution branch of this repo

Step 0: Examine the Solution

Fork and clone the app locally.

Check out to the solution branch and spend time playing around with the completed exercise. Think about how you would separate your different components and functionality.

git checkout solution
npm install
npm start

Step 1: Set up a HelloWorld Component

Before we start building our React app, let's create a HelloWorld component just to make sure that we've tied everything together properly.

• npm install the dependencies you'll need
• In your /src directory, configure your App.js and index.js files to render a HelloWorld component
• Run npm start and make sure everything is working

Step 2: Add UI for Home

• Rename App.js to Home.js to better indicate the purpose of the file. Make sure to update references to this file elsewhere in your application accordingly.
• Create a Home component that returns a container <div> element, which should in turn contain a <h1> element.
• Renders that component to the DOM in your app's main index.js file

Step 3: Add UI for Search

• Create a new file for your Search component.
• Define a Search component that renders a search form. This can be a simple form with a single input and submit button.
• Import the Search file to your Home file.
• Render the Search component in the Home component.

Step 4: Wire up the Search Button

• Define your Search component's initial state. It should have a query value that corresponds to a search term.
• Define a function that is triggered whenever the user submits the Search form. Start by just logging "clicked!" to make sure it works.
  • Use an event listener to attach this function to your form. Try googling onSubmit.
• Define a function that updates your query value in state whenever a change is made to the input field. Try googling onChange.
• Update your submit function so that it now logs the query value in state.

Step 5: Move Search logic to a Container component

• Refactor your Search component so that it only renders a UI based on passed in data
• Define a new container component for Search
• The container Component should handle the business logic for your app's state
• The Search Container should render the Search component

Step 6: When a User Searches...

• Define a results component that will take in a collection of movie objects and render each individual movie's title and poster
• Refactor your Search Container component to include state relating to whether or not a user has searched
• If a user has searched, instead of rendering the Search component, render a Results components with hard coded data

Bonus

Step 7: Connect to the Omdb Api

• With the API key we're using, you don't need an API key, go ahead an look at the documentation to determine the api's proper usage
• We're going to be querying the movie API based on title to return a collection of results.
• Load in jQuery and use it to make an ajax call to the api endpoint using the user's query
• Pass the movie data to the Results component to be displayed

Step 8: Add Styles to your React app

• Load in Bootstrap CDN in index.html
• Modify UI to include Bootstrap classes
• Create a styles directory and make a file for your CSS rule definitions - this will be written in Javascript!
• Load in that file in any component and then use that to apply inline styling

Double Bonus

Step 9: Add a Movie Detail UI

• Create a Details component that render information about a movie
• When a user clicks on a movie in the results view, render the movie detail UI