I was going through the animal farm app part of the course and was able to get the endpoint running on localhost, but for whatever reason when I try to pass query params with "http://localhost:8080/?=bear", req.query is always an empty object so q is always undefined.

So I pulled down the repo, npm installed both front end and server, and still experiencing the exact same behavior. Any ideas? Nothing I've found on SO or here has solved my issues yet.

at 2:37 of the video 24-Game UI of the react-course;
within Card.jsx and the 2nd <img> tag, you forgot to add onClick={onClick};

for any experienced dev this is pretty easy to spot but for a beginner just following your video, if they forgot to add this their event handler will not trigger.

just a quick suggestion if you ever want to patch up the react-course videos in the future; 😄

go Fireship!!

Row 21 in index.js in animalfarm/server should not have ? after q?

Should be
const q = req.query.q.toLowerCase() || '';

instead of
const q = req.query.q?.toLowerCase() || '';

Error received below when running node .
`file:///mnt/c/Users//Documents/SourceCodes/animalfarm/server/index.js:21
const q = req.query.q?.toLowerCase() || '';
^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '.'
at Loader.moduleStrategy (internal/modules/esm/translators.js:133:18)
at async link (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:42:21)`

Code works after removing ?

I installed firebase globally and followed your instructions.

I get this error:

error: unknown option '--hosting'