Guide (Local React App)

Github repository for this Walkthrough Guide: https://github.com/zesty-io/zesty-local-react-example​
Getting Started with the Example App
First, we'll need to install the pull-zesty package. (For more detail, see the docs page on pullzesty)
git clone https://github.com/zesty-io/pullzesty
cd pullzesty
npm link
Next, lets clone the example app​
cd path/to/your/projects/folder
git clone https://github.com/zesty-io/Zesty-Local-React-Example
cd Zesty-Local-React-Example
Now, all we need to do to run is install the required dependencies
npm install
npm start
Note how calling npm start also calls pullzesty
Understanding the Example Project
The zesty.yaml file defines what endpoints we rely on. In this case, we are using two custom endpoints, /-/basic-api/homepage.json and /-/custom/menulist.json``
We save the .json from these endpoints into src/data and use the data in our React code. This can be seen in src/Home.js and src/Menu.js.​
Home.js
import React, { Component } from "react";
let homepageJSON = require("./data/homepage.json");
​
export default class Home extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      homeData: {}
    };
  }
  componentDidMount() {
    const loadData = () => {
      let data = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(homepageJSON));
      this.setState({ homeData: data });
    };
    loadData();
  }
  render() { // greatly simplified for explanation, see the full file on Github
    return (
      <div data-spy="scroll" data-target="#site-navbar" data-offset="200">
        <h1 className="site-heading no- mb-3">
          {this.state.homeData.data &&
            this.state.homeData.data.splash_title}
        </h1>
        <h2 className="h5 site-subheading mb-5 no-">
          {this.state.homeData.data &&
            this.state.homeData.data.splash_description}
        </h2>
      </div>
    );
  }
}
Note how the only difference between the local and remote examples is componentDidMount
Using componentDidMount, we're able to load in our JSON and render it accordingly. After we load it in, it's just a matter of parsing a JS Object.
Additionally, it's not too much different to change this to work remotely instead of locally, as the next guide will show.
React
Guide (Remote React App)
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