wekesa/star-wars-characters

A project that queries a list of starwars characters from SWAPI API.

Starwar Chacters from SWAPI API (https://swapi.dev/api/)

This is a simple react project that has a web interface which queries the SWAPI API and displays a list of the Star Wars characters’ attributes in a table.

You can also view details of a specific character selected. On this view there is a table displaying films that the character has been part of.

Implementation

This simple app has been developed using the following

• React JS framework (Three components)
• Material UI components
• Axios to interact with SWAPI api

TO DO

• Add favorites feature
• Writing Tests (Jest)

Setup

As mentioned earlier this app is built using the React and it leverages on Axios Client. Below is a list of things you need to do to setup this project:

Step 1

Ensure you have either npm or yarn installed.

To check whether you have npm or yarn installed you can run the command npm -v or yarn -v to check whether you have them installed respectively.

Step 2

You need to install all the project's dependencies locally, for this you should run

yarn install # If you have yarn installed

# or

npm install # If you have npm installed

Step 3

Once you have completed all the steps above you are ready to run the application. You can use any of the commands below for that:

yarn start 

# or 

npm start 

The application will run on this url

• http://localhost:3000