Day 9 - Photo Gallery App

Activity Overview

Task:

• Build a photo gallery app using React JS that integrates with the Unsplash API to fetch and display images.

Goals:

• API Integration: Learn to fetch data from an external API using React.
• React Components: Create and structure UI components in React.
• State Management: Use React's useState and useEffect hooks for handling component state and side effects.
• Error Handling: Implement error handling to manage API call failures and provide user feedback.

Steps:

1. Set Up React Environment: Initialize a React app using create-react-app.
2. Create PhotoGallery Component: Build the core component to fetch and display photos.
3. Integrate Unsplash API: Use the API key to fetch photos and display them in a grid layout.
4. Build UI: Design a simple, responsive UI to showcase the photos and photographer details.
5. Handle State and Errors: Manage loading states, handle errors, and ensure a smooth user experience.

Technologies Used

• React JS: For building the user interface.
• Unsplash API: For fetching photos.
• HTML/CSS: For basic styling and layout.
• JavaScript: For handling asynchronous operations and state management.

Screenshots

Live Link

View Live Demo

• Type any image you want on the search bar and the images will load. You can also click on the "Load mor button" for more images

Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/photo-gallery-app.git
   
   
   

Getting Started with Create React App

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in your browser.

The page will reload when you make changes.
You may also see any lint errors in the console.

npm test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

npm run eject

Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can't go back!

If you aren't satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.

Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you're on your own.

You don't have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn't feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn't be useful if you couldn't customize it when you are ready for it.

Learn More

You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.

To learn React, check out the React documentation.

Code Splitting

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Analyzing the Bundle Size

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Making a Progressive Web App

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Advanced Configuration

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Deployment

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