Topics:
- React Router
- Protected Routes
axios
package- AJAX
- Promises
- Authentication tokens
- Run
npm install
inside the root directory of this project to install dependencies for the API server. - Run
npm start
to start the API server. - Run
npx create-react-app friends --use-npm
in a separate terminal window in the root directory of the project to create your starter application. - If you experience issues with
npx
, you may create your starter application by runningcreate-react-app friends --use-npm
. cd
into the friends folder and typenpm install axios react-router-dom
which will install the needed dependencies.
-
There is an API built that has authentication built into it. The API holds a list of friends and lets you add, edit, or remove friends from that list.
-
All of the API endpoints (except the login endpoint) are considered "protected", meaning you have to make the request with an authentication token in the header or the API will send back a
401
error. -
Take your examples from the guided project and use them to build a more sophisticated application. Have fun!
-
Once your server is up and running, the URL you'll be able to hit from within your app is
http://localhost:5000
. You will however need an authentication header on all the calls except the login call. -
Take a look at the endpoints that our API has to offer in
server.js
.- [POST] * to
/api/login
: returns a token to be added to the header of all other requests. Pass in the following credentials as thebody
of the request:{ username: 'lambda', password: 'school' }
- [POST] * to
/api/logout
: removes a token from active use. Returns the inactive token. - [GET] to
/api/friends
: returns the list of friends. - [GET] to
/api/friends/123
: returns the friend with the id passed as part of the URL (123 in example). - [POST] * to
/api/friends
: Adds in a new friend.
- [POST] * to
- Add a route for a login page and build out a simple login form with username and password inputs and a submit button (design this however you would like).
- The login function should save the returned token to localStorage. You can setup
isLoading
state in your Login component, and show a spinner on your form or in your button while the login request is happening. - When the request returns, save the token to
localStorage
, then use the history object in your Login component to navigate your user to your FriendsList route - Create a
<PrivateRoute />
component to protect your other routes. It should check localStorage for a token, and redirect the user to your login route if there is not a token. - Create a protected route for your friends list. Remember, if the user isn't logged in, navigating to this protected route will redirect them to the login page.
- In your FriendsList component, rendered with
<ProtectedRoute />
, you will create a list of your friends that you get from the API.
Adding New Friends
- Create a form to collects data for a new friend.
- Make a POST request to add a friend to the database
- Each
friend
item that is in thefriends
array should have the following format:
{
id: 1
name: 'Joe',
age: 24,
email: '[email protected]',
}
- If you'd like, you can create multiple "view" components for your routes. You could have a component who's sole purpose is to render the login form; one for a form for updating a user; another component who's sole purpose is for creating users; and then another component who's sole purpose is to delete a user.
- It really is up to you how you build this project. I suggest writing down the flow you want to follow, and then writing down each individual piece you need for each step in the flow so that this process doesn't feel as overwhelming.
- Style the friends list and the input field and make everything look nice.
- Expand the number of properties that you put on each friend object. Feel free to remove the dummy data on the server or modify it in any way.
- Submit a Pull-Request to merge
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Branch intomain
(student's Repo). Please don't merge your own pull request