Layla & Hayden - Edges - Video Store Consumer

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Video Store Consumer

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
Paste a link to the PR for your API	Ada-C10/VideoStoreConsumer-API#11
For each person in your pair, describe something you learned from your partner during this project	Layla: I learned to never terminate running servers by clicking the x or closing tabs in terminal. It's better to use control C to end them because sometimes the servers can still be running and cause issues. Hayden: I learned how to use the render prop in React Router to render a component with props passed in instead of just rendering the component plain using the component prop!
What was one area of React you gained more clarity on during this assignment?	Integrating external libraries with react, specifically react router and client side routing.
Describe how you solved the problem of having lists of movies that look mostly the same but have different content	We had a type prop on the movie component that signified which container it belonged to (search vs library) and how to properly render itself.
Describe how you handled rentals with React	We had all the necessary data (movie title, customer id) passed as props to NewRental component based on which movie and customer were currently selected, then simply attached an onClick callback to the submit button that triggered an axios post request with a url generated by string interpolating the necessary props. We also generated a due date within the submitNew function!
Describe a DOM event your application handled	The search bar contained the onSubmit form so that the user can type in a movie and upon click, the search container displays all of the results through the searchMovieByTitle function.
Did you use any functional stateless components? What for?	Yes, the NavBar is a functional component because there was no need for it to track state as it is only a list of three links.
Did you use any container components? What for?	Yes, we had library and search containers. The library container, in particular, allowed for rendering both lists of customers and lists of movies based on a type prop passed to it. These components also held all of their respective child components (movie / customer) within their state.
Do you have any recommendations on how we could improve this project for the next cohort?	Hayden - "i want to say yall should fix the bug in the api or at least tell us there might be a bug but honestly i also really enjoyed the disgusting treasure hunt and found it to be a great learning/debugging experience. maybe leave the bug in there lol"