In this project, I was able to practice your React state skills by fetching and posting data to an API which I also built from scratch using MongoDB and Node.JS.

What I learned 🧠 How to use APIs in React, firing requests within useEffect. How to put the result of API responses into React state to show in the page. What it's like to work with an API which you both send and receive data from. Requirements I reached 🧪 The page follow the design as closely as possible The page lists the most recent thoughts The page has a form to post new thoughts The page has the heart button to send likes on a thought

How I got started 💪🏼

I forked a repo, cloned it into my projects folder on my computer and opened up VS Code. In the terminal, I ran cd code to change into the code folder I installed the dependencies needed for react by running npm install I ran the react development server by running npm start I decided to not follow the design guidelies and added some happy colors. We have enough of a grey scale in Sweden right now ;-)

Requirements 🧪

• Your page should follow the design as closely as possible
• You should list the most recent thoughts
• You should have a form to post new thoughts
• You should implement the heart button to send likes on a thought

If I had more time 🏃‍♂ If would have wanted to create another one... I have some great ideas :-)

You can see it here: https://happythoughts-petrabrinck.netlify.com Link to Heroku for the API: https://pb-happy-thoughts.herokuapp.com/