Hey everyone, welcome to the biggest Dojo yet! We have 25 cities across Europe (and a few other places) all organizing a local Dojo and this project will (literally) connect all of us together.
Your task will be to make a map of the world using ReasonReact, send your github username to our backend and get the location of everyone else to draw as dots on the map.
To draw the map you'll be binding to react-simple-maps, which has a very useful example here.
To get the locations of everyone, you should send a GET request to https://immense-river-25513.herokuapp.com/locations and you'll receive an array of {username: string, location: (lat, long)} (check Fetcher.rei).
To send your username send a POST request https://immense-river-25513.herokuapp.com/add-location with the body being just a string that's your username. The backend will figure out your location and store it.
A high level plan might look like:
- clone this repo
- setup ReasonReact and get a hello world working
- look at react-simple-maps, write bindings to it (look at the interop) and get a dummy map working
- Fetch the data from the backend
- Draw markers for each team
hint hint: You should probably do some sort of polling at a regular interval to get the data as people finish the dojo ;)
This starter project only contains a bit of hairy fetching logic with promises, all you need to care about is calling fetchGet and fetchPost.
All deps are already setup so you can just install npm install.
Then run the build watcher npm run watch
Finally start a static server npx serve (with npm5/6) or python -m SimpleHTTPServer and go to the localhost address (localhost:5000 or localhost:8080 depending).
And please, don't be shy and ask questions! The organizers have the answers to everything.