learn-co-curriculum / react-redux-actions-and-action-creators-lab

Lights...Camera...Action!

Objectives

1. Build out action creators that return the correct data.
2. Create actions to read, create, and destroy data.

Instructions

If you haven't already, make sure to run npm install -g webpack-dev-server to get the webpack dev server installed on your machine.

Note: If you're on the Learn IDE, this will have already been done for you.

Imagine we're building a movie app for users to keep track of their favorite movies. We'll be building out action creator functions so that the user can take the following actions.

1. Add a new movie
2. Delete an existing movie
3. Update their username
4. Reset their username to the default username of 'default'

How to run webpack server and tests

Make sure that you run npm install first.

In one terminal instance run npm start, and in a second terminal instance run npm run test:watch. This will start your Webpack Dev Server and your test suite that watches your code. Open the web browser and go to the port specified in the Webpack Dev Server. (ex. http://localhost:8080)

Note: If you're using the Learn IDE, you can use jobs rather than multiple terminals.

But Where Do I Write My Code?

By convention in Redux, we write our action creator functions in a folder called actions. For a small project, we can define all of the actions in a single file file called index and export them as named exports.

For example:

// src/actions/index.js

export function incrementCount(){
  return {
    type: 'INCREMENT_COUNT'
  }
}

react-redux-actions-and-action-creators-lab's Issues

Typo

type with npm install

How to run tests in browser?

Hey @jjseymour I'm having some issues running the tests in browser and wanted to check with you.

Line 11 of the index.html file instructs that you can run these tests in browser (as I've seen done with many of the other mocha test labs) by running mocha.run() from the console of the index page. I'm getting an error when I load the index page:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token import           index-test.js:1 

Do the test files have to be added to the webpack config or something? @Lukeghenco thought that this might have been cause from using an old template?

Link broken of info about 'jobs'

There is a link to explain how to run jobs in the Learn IDE terminal, but the article is not found.

Here is the link under 'jobs':
https://help.learn.co/hc/en-us/articles/229922347-Running-multiple-processes-in-the-IDE-terminal

Solution Branch Missing

@Lukeghenco