React Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Chapter 15. Submitting Orders

Although Code Café’s users can build an order, they cannot actually send it to the café.

By the end of this chapter, you will store orders on the server, ready for the café staff to fulfill (Figure 15.1, “Orders submitted to the server”).

Figure 15.1. Orders submitted to the server

Submitting a Form

Back in Chapter 8, Interacting with a Server, you made your first request to the API to fetch items. You wrapped the request in the useEffect hook to ensure that it would send when the component initially rendered:

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 useEffect(() => { axios.get('/api/items') .then((result) => setItems(result.data)) ...