React: Working with APIs

Gain experience with different kinds of APIs and explore ways to connect to the data sources behind React applications.

Introduction

• Introduction to working with React APIs
• What you should know

1. Setting Up

• Introduction to the toolset
• Initialize a React project
• Concepts used
• Introduction to the APIs

2. Create the News Component

• Initial component for News
• Fetch data and update your state
• Finalize NewSingle component and styles
• Challenge: Refactor component for reuse
• Solution: Refactor component for reuse

3. Create the Side Component

• Create the new fetch() method
• Create a new component for side news
• Add an error component for fetch errors

Conclusion

• Take the project to the next stage