austincodingacademy/411_news_articles

Instructions

Call the News API to populate a list of news articles using Redux Thunk

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• Look at the state.js file under the redux folder. You should see just one property called articles with an empty array present. We will populate (or replace) the array with data from the News API.

• In the reducers.js file you should see the current reducer function for "articles". Add a case for "FETCH_ARTICLES" that simply returns "action.value"

• In the store.js file you need to do three things:

  1. import applyMiddleware
  2. import thunk
  3. pass applyMiddleware(thunk) to the createStore function

• Finally (for the redux folder), in actions.js, fill the "fetchArticles" function so that it calls the API endpoint (with fetch) and then dispatches the "articleAction" action creator. You will need to pass response.articles (the result of the fetch call) to that action creator to fulfil the "articles" parameter. The API endpoint to call is at the top of the file.

• Now, in our List container we should see that there is already a mapStateToProps function that is sending in the articles array. We need to make a mapDispatchToProps function that returns a property with key, fetchArticles and value () => dispatch(fetchArticles()). Remember to import the fetchArticles action at the top of the page.

• In the List component we simply need to create a "componentDidMount" function and call "this.props.fetchArticles", which is the redux action we just connected. You should see a list of news articles appear on the page.