Client Side Routing w/ React Router v.5

Topics:

• React Router
• Using Link and NavLink to navigate to specific routes
• Passing Route Parameters
• Passing props to components rendered by the Router

Instructions

Task 1: Project Set-up

• Fork this repository, then clone your fork.

• NOTE You have 2 servers that you will be running here so read these instructions carefully.

• In the root of this directory: Run npm install to download dependencies.

• Run the server using npm start or node server.js. (Don't worry too much about this process, you'll get used to doing this and it will be explained more in the future).

• In a separate terminal cd into the client folder and run npm install to download dependencies.

• Still inside the client folder run npm start to run the client application.

• Once your application is up and running on the client, you should see a browser window that looks like this at localhost:3000 (although the port number will be different if 3000 is being used).

Task 2: MVP

Design Files

Once you are done your application will have two routes:

• Screenshot of route '/'
• Screenshot of route '/movies/:id'

Set up Routes

• Wrap your app with the router.
• Inside your App file add two routes.
  • one route for / that loads the MovieList component. This component will need the movies injected into it via props.
  • one route that will take an id parameter after/movies/ (ex: /movies/2, /movies/3 where the id is dynamic). This route should load the Movie component.

Add Functionality

• When a user clicks on the movie card inside MovieList they should be taken to /movies/{id of clicked movie here} to see the details of the selected movie.
• You will need to modify line 7 of Movie.js to get the id of the selected movie from the URL.
• Add functionality so the Home button on the SavedList component navigates back to home.
• You should now be able to navigate back and forth between the list of movies and the detailed view of a single movie.

Task 3: Stretch Goals

If you have completed Parts 1 & 2 feel free to move on to these stretch goals.

Refactor so that our code is DRY

• You may notice that we are using very similar JSX in the Movie component and in the MovieDetails component in MovieList.js. The main difference is the list of stars, which only exists in the "detailed" view of the Movie component.
• Create a new component in MovieCard.js that returns a Movie Card. Then remove the old code from Movie and MovieDetails and instead return the new MovieCard component.
• The Movie Card should be flexible enough to handle displaying a movie with or without the list of stars.

Add Save Movie functionality

• You will notice there is a 'Saved Movies' component that we are not currently using. In this step you will add the functionality to save a movie. You will need to pass the addToSavedList function to the Movie component. Once you have done that you will need to add a click handler to the save button. You will need to uncomment lines 24-27 in Movie.js to complete this.

Turn your Saved Movie list into Links

• Your list of saved movies should be links to the movie itself. Study and understand what the saveMovie function is doing.

Turn your Saved Movie Links into NavLinks

• Navlink

Submission Format

• Submit a link to your repository in canvas.