amodttech / react-hooks-hogwarts

Hogwarts: The React app for fans of prize-winning pigs

React Week 1 Project

Deliverables

• When the app first loads, display a tile for each hog in the porker_data.js file. In the tile, display the name and image for each hog. Use the images in the assets folder.

• When the user clicks on the hog tile, display the other details about the hog (its specialty, weight, greased, and highest medal achieved)

• Allow the user to filter the hogs that are greased

• Allow the user to sort the hogs based on name or weight

• BONUS: Allow users to hide hogs (not delete them, just hide them from view!)

• BONUS: Add a form to allow users to add new hogs to the page

• BONUS: Implement Semantic Cards for each hog

Project Guidelines

• Follow React best practices to create components and decide on where state needs to live based on
• Pass props down from parent components to children
• Use inverse data flow and callback functions to pass data up from child components to parents
• Re-render components by setting state

What we have so far

• A file containing all our hog data (./src/porkers_data.js) imported into App.js
• A folder of hog images (./src/assets)
• A <Nav> component rendered in our App.js

Trying to figure out where to start?

There are lots of ways to build this project, and while some ways are better than others, there is no 'right' way! Start by wireframing what you want the app to look like and breaking it up into components.

Once you've decided on your components, use the MVP (minimum viable product) approach. What's the simplest thing we can render to the page? Perhaps a paragraph tag displaying each hog's name? Which components would this involve?

When building your filter and sort functionalities, consider what you want to store in state and where that state should be stored. How can a child component pass information up to its parent component? Think about what needs to happen upon each index rerender. What if a user filters out un-greased pigs, and then wants the remaining pigs sorted by weight?

Be sure to use good programming practices, such as clear variable names and single responsibility functions. React apps can quickly become tangled and hard to debug if built without best practices!

Trying to get the Hog image to render?

Working with images dynamically in React can be tricky. In order to use the load the images in with Webpack (which is used under the hood by create-react-app), we must first import all the files:

import augustus_gloop from "../assets/augustus_gloop.jpg";
import babe from "../assets/babe.jpg";
import bailey from "../assets/bailey.jpg";
import cherub from "../assets/cherub.jpg";
import galaxy_note from "../assets/galaxy_note.jpg";
import leggo_my_eggo from "../assets/leggo_my_eggo.jpg";
import peppa from "../assets/peppa.jpg";
import piggy_smalls from "../assets/piggy_smalls.jpg";
import piglet from "../assets/piglet.jpg";
import porkchop from "../assets/porkchop.jpg";
import trouble from "../assets/trouble.jpg";
import truffle_shuffle from "../assets/truffle_shuffle.jpg";

Then we can use the image variables to display the images:

import truffle_shuffle from "../assets/truffle_shuffle.jpg";

function PigImage(props) {
  // how can we dynamically determine which pig image variable to use?
  // maybe an object would be a good tool to use 🤔
  return <img src={piggy_smalls} />;
}

Styling

We've imported the Semantic CSS library to keep your piggies looking pretty. To keep your hogs in columns, make sure their parent container has the class "ui grid container". The children in the columns should have class "ui eight wide column". (Semantic uses a grid with a default of 16 units wide, so 8-wide will make two columns and 4-wide will make 4 columns.)

Semantic will take care of assigning the columns for you. You can also try implementing Semantic Cards for each hog.