Final Project

My Final Project with Flatiron

This was the final project for my time at Flatiron School. Project goals included using everything I had learned so far, use create-react-app and a rails backend.  

When I first started at Flatiron the very first thing I wanted to build was some way to organize my own personal dvd collection so that I could just look up my library on my phone from anywhere I am. I have this problem that I have so many dvds that when I see a movie on sale somewhere I sometimes forget if I already own that movie. In the beginning of my time at Flatiron I didn't have the skill and knowledge to create the app I wanted. When I finally got to the last module and learned about React and Redux I realized I could finally build the app I wanted.  

One of the main challenges I ran into was Redux as a whole. The problem I had wasn't really technical. It was wrapping my mind around why this was even needed. The problem was that I had practice using Redux on very small projects and it was very much overkill. It wasn't until I was halfway through a much larger project (this one), that I started to see the benefits of Redux

At the end of the day, the technologies implemented in this project are React, React-Router, Redux, React-Sass and a significant amount of VanillaJS, JSX, and CSS. I chose to use the `create-react-app` boilerplate to minimize initial setup.

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