Reaction Gallery

Deployment Link

You can view the deployed project here.

Overview:

This application allows users to visit a virtual art gallery from the comfort of their own home. Upon page load, a random piece of art will appear in the browser, along with information about its title, artist, medium, and period. If a user likes the displayed art, they can add it to their favorites - where they can view everything they've liked in one place. When a user is ready to view another random work, they can click Randomize.

Application in Action:

Viewing a random artwork:

Adding an artwork to favorites and viewing all favorites:

Set Up:

• Clone the repository to your local machine.
• cd into the application.
• Run npm install to install the project dependencies.
• Run npm start to see the application.
  • Paste http://localhost:3000/ into your browser to view.
  • If you need to stop running the application, run Control + C.
• To view tests, run npm run cypress.

Goals and Challenges:

The biggest learning goal for this application was to successfully self-teach a new technology, without help from instructors or mentors. Our team chose to teach ourselves the basics of Redux and its Toolkit library, as we feel that Global State Management will become incredibly important as we work on increasingly large applications. We do acknowledge that this particular application is not large enough to be a true Redux use case, however we are happy to have gained some practice with the technology.

Related to the main learning goal, our biggest challenge throughout this application was knowing exactly where to start with our self-teaching. The documentation for Redux and even Toolkit specifically is so vast, that narrowing down our learning strategy took quite a bit of planning.

Technologies:

• React
• Redux / Redux Toolkit
• Javascript
• CSS
• JSX / HTML
• Router
• Cypress
• Restful APIs
• NPM

Future Additions:

In the future, we hope to build out additional user functionality, including the following:

• Giving users the ability to remove an artwork from their 'favorites'.
• Allowing users to filter their 'favorited' artworks by medium or period.
• The application is not fully resonsive (ex: on mobile devices) and we would like to make it so in the future.

Contributors:

• Daniel Neer
• Jacob Lavarine
• Nikki Balmoori
• Olivia Whitehead