Katie and Alice Video Store

[katietj]

Video Store Consumer

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Paste a link to the PR for your API	Ada-C10/VideoStoreConsumer-API#12 Here is a link to our deployed site!: https://the-katie-alice-video-store.surge.sh/
For each person in your pair, describe something you learned from your partner during this project	Katie: I learned some good debugging skills from Alice, she's really good at figuring out what is wrong! I appreciate her confidence and skill as a coder, I always learn a ton from her. Alice: I feel like Katie's personality really balanced with mine, she kept a good working pace, and I felt like her enthusiasm celebrating our successes (step by step) helped the pair dynamic.
What was one area of React you gained more clarity on during this assignment?	We gained clarity on how to deal with flash error messages in React and how the React Router can show us different components via paths.
Describe how you solved the problem of having lists of movies that look mostly the same but have different content	We used conditionals and classes to customize the movie component for use in search and library.
Describe how you handled rentals with React	We created an axios post request in the on the front-end to our back-end API.
Describe a DOM event your application handled	We created an on-click handler for the check-out button visibility. A ternary checks if a movie and customer are selected before allowing the button to be displayed and the check-out to happen.
Did you use any functional stateless components? What for?	We used functional components for customer and customers, because we just wanted to display information and did not need to store anything in state or call any lifestyle methods.
Did you use any container components? What for?	No.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	Overall it was ok, it was nice to see the connection between front-end and API's. Maybe doing this project earlier would be good.