Build a Movie Search App in React

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This course includes

11 interactive lectures

Coding challenges

Source code

with James Q Quick

Course level: Intermediate

Learn React in one hour by building a movie search app. Solve interactive coding challenges to ensure that the knowledge sticks with you.

What's inside

This course contains 13 interactive screencasts

Build a Movie Search App in React

13 lessons 56 min

1. Course Introduction

2. How To Get Your Movie DB API Key

3. Frontend Developer Career Path Promo

4. Add Base Styles to Our App

5. Create Your First Component

6. Style the Search Movies Component

7. Create the Search Movies Function

8. Manage State with React useState Hook

9. Display Movie Information

10. Style the Movie Cards

11. Create the Movie Card Component (Challenge)

13. Congratulations on completing Build a movie search app in React!

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It's also a benefit to have seen a little bit of React code before, but it's not a must-have. Check out the courses below if you don't feel ready for this course yet.

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The course creator

James Q Quick

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Why this course rocks

This course teaches you React by building a movie search app. It offers a quick and interactive primer on the worlds most popular front-end framework.

Throughout the 11 lessons, you'll solve several interactive coding challenges to ensure that the knowledge actually sticks with you.

The course focues on modern React, using concepts like functional components and hooks to build the movie search app.

If you feel find this course to be a bit over your level, you should also check out our Learn React For Free course. 