I'm trying to complete my app, have learned react, redux, react router all in one, now I'm just confused a bit when it comes to putting it all together.
Say I have a Nav component that's included in a header that's included globally on all pages and it calls a redux action which then runs a reducer and returns some search results.
When one searches from the navigation bar, how do I get it to redirect a search page that then returns the search results?
Nav component
class Nav extends React.Component {
render() {
const { search } = this.props;
return (
<header>
<SearchBox search={search} />
</header>
)
}
}
that includes a search component
class SearchBox extends React.Component {
constructor() {
super();
this.state = {
name: ''
}
}
handleChange = event => {
this.setState({
[event.target.id]: event.target.value
});
}
handleSubmit = event => {
event.preventDefault();
this.props.search(JSON.stringify({name: this.state.name}))
}
render() {
return (
<form onSubmit={this.handleSubmit}>
<input type="text" id="name" onChange={this.handleChange} placeholder="Search" />
<button type="submit">Search</button>
</form>
)
}
}
my layouts are like
index.js
const Index = () => {
return (
<Nav />
... Home Content
)
}
profile.js
const Profile = () => {
return (
<Nav />
... Profile Content
)
}
search.js
const Users = (props) => {
let list = null;
list = props.users.map((user, index)=> {
const { name } = user.profile;
const { username } = user;
return (
<li key={index}>
<h3><a href={'/'+username}>{name}</a></h3>
</li>
)
});
return <section id="search"><ul>{list}</ul></section>;
}
class Search extends React.Component {
render() {
const { searchResults } = this.props;
return (
<Nav />
<div>
{
/* show 'No results when no results found' */
searchResults !== ''
? seachResults.length == 0
? 'No results found'
: <Users users={searchResults} />
: null
}
</div>
)
}
}
const mapStateToProps = state => ({
searchResults: state.store.searchResults,
});
the user action is
export const search = (name) => dispatch => {
...
dispatch({
type: SEARCH_USER,
payload: res
})
the reducer is
const initialState = {
searchResults: ''
};
case SEARCH_USER:
return {
...state,
searchResults: action.payload.search
}
}
index.js
class App extends React.Component {
render() {
return (
<Router>
<Switch>
<Route path="/" exact={true} component={Index} />
<Route path="/profile" component={Profile} />
<Route path="/search" component={Search} />
</Switch>
</Router>
)
}
}