The live website can be found here: https://codecademy-reddit-client.netlify.app/
In this project, i will be building a Reddit Client that uses the Reddit undocumented JSON API for the final front end engineer course from codecademy
You can take any Reddit URL, add .json at the end of it, and get JSON. For example, if you want to get the Popular page data in JSON:
- Original URL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/ - JSON URL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/popular.json
If you want to search for "cake recipes":
- Original URL:
https://www.reddit.com/search?q=cake%20recipes - JSON URL:
https://www.reddit.com/search.json?q=cake%20recipes
In this project, my goal is to build a functional Reddit Application that makes use of frameworks like React and Redux. The goal is to enable navigation using React Router providing a seamless integration.
Here are the following issues:
- When at the root of the page the "r/Home" should be highlighted but its not.
- The subreddit name is misaligned in the subreddit list.
- There is only minimal error handling in terms of searching for subreddits.
- Page general CSS could be improved to provide a more user friendly responsive experience.
- Make Unit Tests that test the components (and functions) of the application.
While most of the files (Components, State) are written by me (Benjamin), the general structure of the site (CSS and HTML) is copied by hand from the example website provided by codecademy, this is because i suck at CSS, in the future i would like to hone my CSS and HTML skills but for now i am more focused on the logic side of my application.