justinfrawl / my-giphy-web-091817

My Giphy

Click here to see the final version of the website you have to create.

Project goals:

• Interact with the Giphy API
• Create a form that will toggle between two modes:
  • Search: given a search word and a limit it will return to you that amount of gifs that matched the search word
  • Trending: given a limit it will return to you that amount of the top trending gifs
• Render the requested gifs
• Allow users to collect their favorite gifs
• Validate the forms
• BONUS: Make the project work with only 5 components (This excludes components that come from UI styling libraries like Material-UI)
• BONUS: Style your project using Material UI and make it look identical to the deployed website.

Project requirements:

• Fetch data every time the user types into the an text box
• Functional and container components.(You will need to use both more than once)
• Components using state and props
• Re-renders based on client-side events

What we have so far:

• Nothing... once you fork this repo you will notice that there isn't much code to start you off, that's part of the challenge. We have a completed version for you to play with, your job is to re-create this website, click here to see it.

How to use the Giphy API:

Using the Giphy API is actually quite simple! sign up here. Go to your upper right hand corner and click Log in. At the bottom of the login form there is a message that says "Don't Have An Account? Ew. Join Giphy!", click there and sign-up; it only takes a few seconds! After signing up click here, click on Create an App, it should be on the upper right hand side. It will prompt you to give your app a name and a description. Fill in those text boxes and click the Create New App button on the lower right hand side. That's it! your api key will appear on your dashboard in your giphy account.

How to do fetch request to the Giphy API?

If you dont feel the need to read these instructions you can get the documentation here; click on Code Examples on your left hand side.

• First store your api key in a variable, as well as with the url. We do this because we will use it for search & trending.

const KEY = "SOME-API-KEY";
const URL = `https://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/`;

• We interpolate the URL and the API key into the fetch.

fetch(`${URL}search?api_key=${KEY}`)

• NOTICE: after we interpolate the key into the string we use the &, this allows us to give it another parameter. In order to pass it parameters for the search we will use the q=. After you should interpolate what the use searched for.

const search = "the-user-search"
fetch(`${URL}search?api_key=${KEY}&q=${search}`)

• We will follow the same procedure for the limit, instead of using q=, we will use limit=. Then we will interpolate the limit that the user picked.

const search = "the-user-search"
const limit = "5"
fetch(`${URL}search?api_key=${KEY}&q=${search}&limit=${limit}`)

• Thats it! make the request and your response should look like this:

{data: Array(25), pagination: {…}, meta: {…}}