New lesson: React Part 6 - Connecting an API

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The previous lessons focused on building an in-memory app but now we want to integrate with API's.

Prereqs

• React 1-5
• Express APIs

Use our Lesson Template v2

Topics to Cover

• Async API calls
  • Fetching initial data - showing a spinner or other feedback to the user while that is happening
• Submitting a form to an API
• After adding/editing data, updating the state so the data changes

Guided Practice

• Convert an in-memory TODO app from Part 5 to use an API
• The API should already exist. Building it should not be in the scope of this lesson
• Find or build a repo that has a simple CRUD API for the TODOs using Express/Node (doesn't need a database but if it uses Postgres, that's fine)

This lesson should go in the ./react-js/react-part-6-apis.md and a link added to the main README.md along with the other React lessons.

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