Intoduction
When course started we spent a lot of time trying to learn Flux. Sadly Flux was no longer relevant to our studies and so the course evolved to include React.JS. Changing the course outline was the right choice as React is a popular framework that has a lot of resources available online through LinkedIn or at a lesser extent Youtube.
The demos where we were able to utilize the code and mold it to fit the needs for our assessment was rather complicated at first glance . Sadly, i struggle to take my code and another person’s code and mash it all together to form a whole new block of code.
Issue: Hosting
For the purpose of assessment 3 where we needed to host our websites i understood the concept but struggled to replicate the code from the demos into my own project. I spent weeks trying to create the needed back end for my assessment so that it could be hosted by using the required back end.
What did i learn?
I learnt that try as you must if you do not have the correct dependence installed in your project then React will struggle to operate as required.With some help installing the needed React dependence then i was able to host my website locally. Even though i hosted my website locally it still sent and retrieved requests from the back end.
Deleting data
One of the requirements for our assessment was that we were meant to be able to delete data from a table. I created the needed functions in order to delete data of our choosing but sadly the function calls failed to produce the desired outcome.
Course reflection
Overall i still learnt something regarding React and how to host a website using a back end to handle all the logic behind the scenes while the front end displayed the data correctly so that the user can read the information as required.
I do wish that we started the course with React.js and Hooks instead of trying to learnt Flux-which took a almost 6 weeks of course time.
Bachelor of Information Technology (NMIT) 