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CS 347: Lecture 21 – Router, Part I

November 10, 2020 by Chris Johnson. Filed under fall-2020, lectures, webdev.

Dear students:

React lifts the burden of manipulating the DOM, which is nice, but some desirable features are also thrown out—like a site organized into multiple pages. With what we’ve seen of React so far, multiple pages are not really an option, as all views must be corraled under the almighty App component. In this two-part lecture, we examine ways to make a React app for recording notes feel like it has multiple pages.

As with the Redux lectures, the videos for this lecture and the next are split based on time rather than on theme.

Here’s your TODO list:

• Write a blog post for Friday.
• Watch Faking Multiple Pages in SPAs.
• Watch Setting up Router.
• Watch Linking to Pages.
• Watch Adding a Tags List.
• Watch Adding a Notes List.
• On Thursday, we’ll have a peer review for project 2. Be prepared to discuss and demonstrate your progress, celebrate difficulties that you’ve overcome, and strategize about what needs to be accomplished next.
• Make sure I have access to your two repositories for project 2: one for the client and one for the web service and database schema.

See you next time.

Sincerely,