React & REST API: Get Data From a Web Database!
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Event description
Let's create a front-end React Component that can access the contents of a 3rd party Web Database service using Express as a proxy.
About this Event
In this 2 hour workshop, you'll walk away with a React project that interacts with Kintone, a Web Database service.
We'll walk you through the basics of REST API calls and CORS, usage of State and Effect Hooks, setting up an Express back-end, and using it as a proxy.
Prerequisite - Sign up for Kintone!
🚀 Sign up for Kintone!
① Sign-Up for Developer Program Account (Website) 🌐
② THEN Create a Kintone Subdomain (Database) 📂
💾 Install Node & npm
- Node ≥ 10.16 and npm ≥ 5.6 are required for this workshop
- Installing Node.js
- *When you download Node.js, you automatically get npm installed on your computer.
Quick Video on the Sign-Up Process:
📚 Suggested Reading
We advise you to have a look through the following React documents beforehand:
Event Schedule (in Pacific Time)
- 6:00 pm - Welcome!
- 6:15pm - 7:45pm - Kintone Presentation & Workshop
- 7:45pm - Q&A
⚙️ What is Kintone?
Kintone is a no-code/low-code cloud platform for teams to quickly & easily share and collaborate on their data.
You can add JavaScript, CSS, &/or HTML to enhance the front-end UI/UX of a Kintone App. This can include features such as maps, buttons, and color-coding.
Read up on how to customize and develop on the Kintone platform at https://developer.kintone.io/
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