Basic Routes Lab

Learning Goals

• Use createBrowserRouter to create a client-side router.
• Use RouterProvider to include the router in your app.
• Use the <NavBar> component to allow client-side navigation.
• Use errorElement to set up router error handling.

Introduction

In this lab we are going to build out a Movie application that has routes for a Home Page, Actors Page, Movie Page, and Directors Page. Our goal is to provide routes and links for these 4 pages.

Let's work through this one component at a time.

Setup

Our src folder contains the following JavaScript files:

src/
├── components/
    ├── MovieCard.jsx
    ├── NavBar.jsx
    ├── NavBar.css
└── pages/
    ├── Actors.jsx
    ├── Directors.jsx
    ├── Home.jsx
    ├── Movie.jsx
├── index.css
├── main.jsx
├── routes.jsx

You'll need to fill out these various files to get your app up and running. You're also free to make your own new components when you feel its warranted! (Look out for repetitive code, or code that seems like it deserves its own new component.)

To start up the lab, first run npm install, as per usual. Then run npm run server to start your json-server and npm run dev to open the application in the browser.

routes.js

You'll be adding the routes you create to this file and saving them within the routes variable. You'll need to provide routes for /, /directors, /actors, and /movie. The /movie route should also include a URL parameter called id. Don't forget that you'll need to import components into this file!

main.jsx

Our main.jsx file is currently broken. (It's not rendering anything!) You'll need to update it to provide routing to our application using createBrowserRouter and RouterProvider.

Components

NavBar

This component needs to render three NavLink components. They will be for /, /directors, and /actors, in this order (test checks for this). The NavLink for / should render Home, directors should render Directors, and actors should render Actors. Each page should render the NavBar.

MovieCard

This component is already set up to render the title of one movie. You'll need to pass it the appropriate props to render a movie's title. You'll also need to use a Link component from react-router-dom that uses dynamic routing to link a user to the Movie page, using the movie id as a parameter.

Pages

Home

This component should render on the / route. It should display the text Home Page in an <h1>. It should also render a list of movies using MovieCard components.

Movie

This component should render on the /movie route. You will need to include a URL parameter of id on that route.

The component will display information about one specific movie. It should display the movie's title in an <h1> tag, the movie's time in a <p> tag, and each of the movie's genres within its own <span> tag.

You'll need to use the useParams hook to get URL parameter data about which movie you want to render, then use that data to fetch and render the appropriate movie.

Directors

This component should render on the /directors route. It should display the text Directors Page in an <h1>, and render a new <article> element for each director in our array of directors. The <article> should contain the director's name in an <h2> and a <ul> with a list of their movies.

Actors

This component should render the text Actors Page in an <h1>, and render a new <article> element for each actor in our array of actors. The <article> should contain the actor's name in an <h2> and a <ul> with a list of their movies.

Note: The tests will count how many <article>s are nested inside your Directors and Actors components. So to get tests to pass, you must create exactly one <article> for each director or actor, and no additional nested <article>s in those components.

ErrorPage

You'll need to create a new component within the pages folder for our ErrorPage. This page should display our NavBar component, along with the text "Oops! Looks like something went wrong." in an <h1>.

Note: Even when all of your tests are passing, you will see a console.warn message indicating that the route the test file is using — bad-route — doesn't match any routes.

Resources

• React Router