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[anibelamerica]

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Explain the steps in creating a new Card from the form.	A user enters text or selects an emoji from a dropdown list. This event will update the text and emoji states in the NewCardForm component. Upon submission, these states are sent up to a newCard method in the Board component via a callback. The method posts a requests to the API and a new card is either successfully created or errors are stored in state. If the card is successfully created, the Board's card state is updated with the new card.
How did you learn how to use the API?	I practiced API calls in postman.
What function did you use to place the GET request from the API to get the list of cards? Why use that function?	I used a componentDidMount() to get the list of cards from the API so that I can set the state and rerender the component within that lifecycle.
Explain the purpose of a Snapshot test.	A snapshot tests whether our component is outputting the expected HTML.
What purpose does Enzyme serve in testing a React app?	Enzyme has methods to create shallow and deep rendering of a component (or component and nested components for deep mounting) for testing.

[droberts-sea]

Inspiration Board

What We're Looking For

Feature	Feedback
Core Requirements
Git hygiene	yes
Comprehension questions	yes
General
Card Component renders the data provided as props	yes
Board Component takes a URL and renders the list of Cards and passes in callback functions	yes
NewCardform Component is a controlled form and uses a callback function to return entered data to the parent component	yes
API
GET request made in componentDidMount	yes
DELETE request made in callback function	yes
POST request made in callback function passed to NewCardForm component.	yes
Snapshot testing	yes
Styling	yes
Overall	Good work overall. I've left a couple of inline comments below, but in general it's clear to me that the learning goals around building a complete interactive react app and integrating it with an API were met. Keep up the hard work!

[droberts-sea]

If the URL and board name aren't going to be changed within this component, you don't need to keep them in state. If you read them from props throughout the app, it will be more clear that they're read-only.

[droberts-sea]

I like that you've kept all the API interaction logic in one component - the callbacks are a little more complex, but I would say it makes the app as a whole much easier to comprehend. Whether or not you intended it, this is a great example of the container component pattern well-applied.

[droberts-sea]

Good use of a helper method here. Could you call this from your constructor instead of repeating this work?