Day 12

Questions on projects

https://github.com/AustinCodingAcademy/advanced-express-practice

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https://github.com/AustinCodingAcademy/checkpoint-backend-1

Questions on React lesson

Why did we not use create-react-app

What makes JSX possible?

What is “props”

Why are we learning react instead of angular or vue

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Practice

https://github.com/AustinCodingAcademy/react-component-practice

Walk through steps of creating a few components.

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Homework

https://github.com/AustinCodingAcademy/aca-store-react

Get as much done as you can for Wednesday

You are now full stack developers

• You can build a server, a web client and a database
• You can have a web client talk to a web server and the web server talk to the database server
• Is there anything else besides a database, a web server or a web client?

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Web client

• use fetch to retrieve data from the server and bring it into the web page
• code javascript to build the UI based on that data
• allow the user to change the data
• save the changed data to the server

Database

• setup a database in the cloud
• connect to the database from another computer
• send data to the database to save it
• retrieve data from the database to display it

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Web server

• Write a program that listens for messages from the internet
• Code a server program to understand REST
• Connect to database to save and retrieve other information
• Connect to apis to retrieve information that we don’t control ( geolocation)
• Connect 2 clients together to coordinate communication (chat)

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What else is there to learn?

• So far we have learned to build things that are essential to any software system. You cannot build amazon.com without these things.
• But there are things that we can learn that are not essential to building amazon.com but are essential to getting a job.
• Aca-store. Web apps are not built this way anymore.
• We have to learn the tools that real jobs want you to know.

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But…. Is a “web” client necessary?

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What other type of clients are there?

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A client is necessary to all software systems but it doesn’t necessarily have to be a web client.

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• Desktop, mobile device …

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Why are we choosing to build a web client

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