React and APIs - Full Tutorial - Hacker News API Application

Overview

This intermediate tutorial teaches how to use APIs with React by creating an application that calls the Hacker News API. The course covers React memo, Axios for API calls, styled components, and testing with React Testing Library. The teaching method includes hands-on coding sessions and testing practices. This course is intended for learners with some prior knowledge of React who want to enhance their skills in working with APIs and testing React applications.

Syllabus

) Introduction (what are we building?), tech stack talk.
) Using create-react-app as our base.
) Stripping out the files & content that we do not need.
) Refactoring to named exports.
) Modifying our .env file.
) Scaffolding our application.
) Looking at the Hacker News Api.
) Looking at all the news article Ids.
) Adding Axios using Yarn.
) Creating our hnApi.js service file.
) Adding the ability to get all story Ids from HN Api.
) Starting work on App.js.
) Adding useEffect to App.js to show all story Ids.
) Explaining how useEffect works.
) Creating our StoriesContainer.js container/component.
) Adding the ability to get stories from HN Api.
) Demonstrating the results that we receive from the HN Api.
) Creating our Story.js component file.
) Adding our Story component to the StoriesContainer component.
) Adding storyId as a prop to the Story.js component.
) Adding state to our Story.js component.
) Using useEffect to get a story in our Story.js component.
) Adding validation when getting stories.
) Dumping our stories onto the page.
) Building out the Story.js component with real data.
) Adding a selector for the story fields.
) Adding styled components.
) Building out our StoryStyles.js file using styled components.
) Adding a title to StoriesContainer.js.
) Adding a StoryWrapper to our Story.js component.
) More work on styling.
) Adding styling for StoryMeta.
) Adding styling for StoryMetaElements & styled component props.
) Adding our styled components to our Story.js component.
) Adding StoriesContainerStyles for more styling on the container.
) Looking at adding global styles (createGlobalStyle).
) Adding our container styles to StoriesContainer.js.
) Brief look at the React profiler.
) Quick run through as to what we have built so far.
) Making our time display properly using mapTime.js.
) Adding InfiniteScroll to our application (custom hook).
) Constants to be used by InfiniteScroll for per page items.
) Adding debounce functionality for scrolling.
) Adding a fixture folder with fixtures for tests.
) Testing! Lets test App.js.
) Adding react-testing-library to our application.
) Adding Jest coverage (good practise to do so).
) Testing the StoriesContainer.js.
) Testing the Story.js component.
) Testing the HnApi.js file.
) Looking at our coverage and more testing!.
) Collecting coverage from the right places.
) Looking at React memo.
) Adding memo to Story.js to prevent additional Api calls.
) Overview of what we have achieved!.
) Running our application through Lighthouse!.
) Thanks for watching, I hope you learned a lot!.