MovieFinder App: React OMDB API 🚀🚀🚀

This project is an introduction to using React.js for extracting data from an API. It focuses on:

• Making API requests in order to retrieve JSON data.
• Creating event handling functions for forms.
• Updating of Components and their State.
• Passing of State values as Props between Components.
• Using React lifecycle methods (such as componentDidUpdate()) to check for updates made to the State of Components.

Getting Started 🏁

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

What things you need installed on your local machine.

Text editor (This was built using VSCode)
NPM / Yarn
Git

How To:

To use the app, visit the web link in the short description above. If you would like to try it on your own:

1. Fork and/or Clone repo.
2. Run 'npm install' on your local repo so as to get the required dependencies.
3. Launch application with 'npm start'.

Running the tests 🧪

This app utilizes Jest & Enzyme for testing the components. Tests can be run by using the command:

npm test

OR

npm run test

To run tests with coverage, use the command:

npm run coverage

Contributing 👋

If you would like to contribute to this repository, follow the guidelines provided in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Code Of Conduct 📋

Please note that there is a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.

Authors 💻

• Malcolm R. Kente - Initial work - reMRKable Dev

Acknowledgments 🗣️

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.