Setup

Clone this repo and run npm i and then npm start

Project Instructions

Getting Familiar (DON'T SKIP THIS)

• You've already seen this app before (twice now) so you should be pretty familiar with it. In this assignment we will incorporate Redux into the application so all components have access to the cars. We will also add additional properties to the state and see how that effects things.

• We've removed the login/logout functionality so you don't have to login each time to see your changes.

• Note that the Redux setup is done for you, the purpose of this excercise is to get familiar with mapStateToProps to pass the data to your components. You will also be creating the containers.

• Even though the setup has been done, please go look at the files under the "redux" folder. Remember, there are 3 files needed for this setup. They are:

  • state.js: The inital state of your application
  • reducers.js: A file with functions that determine how to serve your state (more on that next lesson)
  • store.js: The combination of "state" and "reducers" that is injected into your application via the Provider

• Once you've navigated to (and gotten familiar) with the files above.. go to the App.js and see the Provider wrapping our application.

• Finally, click the Dashboard tab and notice that a new component was created with a table of all the cars. Look at the code for that component and see that it's mostly still components from Material UI.

Project Work

• Let's start with the Home component. Navigate to it and notice that it is importing cars.json and mapping through that to display the cars. We want to attach "cars" to the "props" of this component so that it can be re-used. Under the "containers" folder, create a new file called Home.js.

• Inside Home.js do the following:

  • Import "connect" from "react-redux"
  • Import the Home component from the components folder
  • Write a mapStateToProps function that maps "cars" to "state.cars"
  • Export the connected component and mapStateToProps combination

• Now, go to the Router.js file and see where Home is imported at the top of the file. Change its path so that it references containers instead of components.

• Go to the Home component (in the components folder) and replace the use of "cars" with "props.cars". Everything should have stayed the same (that means it worked). If so, go ahead and remove the import for cars.json at the top of the file.

• The Dashboard and Car components need the exact same setup so follow the same instructions for them. Create files for them in the containers folder. You can copy/paste from the Home container but make sure to change Home to reference the appropriate component.

• Make the switch for Dashboard and Car in the Router.js file just like we did for Home. Make sure to use props.cars in these components as well and remove the import to cars.json.

• Everything look good so far? If not, ask the instructor.

• Navigate to the Dashboard component and see the text, "Welcome, Name". Let's change that. To do that we are going to add a user to our global state and then pull it into the Dashboard component.

• Go to the redux/state.js file and add a property called "user" above cars. Give it the following value:

{
    username: 'test-user-1',
    email: 'test-user@example.com'
}

• Now, go back to the Dashboard container and add this user in the mapStateToProps function.

• Finally, in the Dashboard component, reference props.user.username to show the username instead of the word "NAME". Whenever another component needs access to the user, they can simply add it in their mapStateToProps function as well.

• Good work!