Week 04 Day 2 - Crypto Tracker

[gstark]

In this project you'll use React and a 3rd-party API as a data to create a real-time price tracker for some popular cryptocurrencies.

Objectives

• Use state in React
• Render data from an API request in React
• Use setInterval to repeat
• Use React the following lifecycle methods: componentDidMount, componentWillUnmount
• Use React Component subclasses

Requirements

Use the following API endpoint to fetch data and display it in your application:

https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v2/ticker/?limit=20

The data should refresh periodically. Using the id field in the API results for each currency, you can get the URL for the logo of a coin like this:

https://s2.coinmarketcap.com/static/img/coins/16x16/${coin.id}.png

Explorer Mode

• [x] Use create-react-app to setup your new application.
• [x] Fetch new currency data from the API endpoint every 10 seconds.
• [x] Update the applications state with currency data from the API.
• [x] Create an HTML table to display the currency data in the application state.
• [x] Use props to render table rows as child components for each currency in the application state.

Adventure Mode

• [ ] Use stateless-functional components where appropriate.
• [ ] If the updated price of a currency is higher than the last update, show the price in green. If it's lower, show the price in red. HINT: You'll probably want to look into additional lifecycle methods for your React components to accomplish this.

Epic Mode

• [ ] How else could we present the changing price to the user? Look into Edward Tufte's sparklines, how do you think this could be implemented as a React component? Try using a third party library to render a sparkline for each currency.

Additional Resources

• State and Lifecycle in the React Documentation
• AJAX and APIs in the React Documentation
• setInterval documentation on MDN.

[benjaminkent]

explorer mode complete - http://cryptotracker-benjaminjehl.surge.sh, https://github.com/benjaminkent/crypto-tracker

[gstark]

Your homework is: Meets Expectations