• Introduction
• Setup
• Overview
• 1. Install the CLI
• 2. Create the App
• 3. Run the App
• 4. Setup the API
• Layout
• Overview
• 1. Install Bootstrap
• 2. Add Custom Styles
• 3. Add the Header
• Routing
• Overview
• 1. Convert Title to a Link
• 2. Add Feed to Routes
• Data Structure
• Overview
• 1. Add Mock Data to Feed
• 2. Create Tweet Component
• 3. Add Mock User Data
• Fetching Data
• Overview
• 1. Set API Location
• 2. Create Tweet Model
• Convention over Configuration
• 3. Connect Feed Component
• 4. Display Loading Message
• 5. Fetch User for Tweet
• Authentication
• Overview
• 1. Add Profile to Layout
• 2. Add Auth0 Config
• 3. Add Login Page
• 4. Redirect to Login
• 5. Add Callback Route
• 6. Add Logout Page
• 7. Fetch Current User
• 8. Save User to Context
• Server
• Overview
• 1. Clone the API Server
• 2. Parse the Collection
• 3. Parse the Model
• 4. Add Unauthorized Experience
• 5. Add Authorization Header
• Pagination
• Overview
• 1. Add Pagination Metadata
• 2. Paginate the Tweets
• 3. Add Pagination Links
• 4. Improve User Experience
• Infinite Scrolling
• Overview
• 1. Create Load More Button
• 2. Create Infinite Scrolling List
• 3. Convert the Feed
• Cleanup
• Overview
• 1. Remove Unnecessary Code
• Dialogs
• Overview
• 1. Add Create Button
• 2. Mounting Dialogs
• 3. Add Create Dialog
• 4. Simplify the Dialog
• 5. Generate Dialog via Hook
• 6. Add Edit Dialog
• 7. Add Delete Dialog
• Authorization
• Overview
• 1. Hide Edit Link
• 2. Hide Delete Link
• 3. Alternative Approach
• Optimistic Updates
• Overview
• 1. Freeze Pagination Data
• 2. Display New Tweets
• 3. Display Optimistic Tweets
• 4. Add Optimistic Values
• 5. Show Optimistic Visual Cues
• 6. Hide Deleted Tweets
• Normalization
• Overview
• 1. Normalize Tweet Response
• Filtering
• Overview
• 1. Add Filter
• 2. Display User Tweets
• WebSockets
• Overview
• 1. Add WebSocket Support
• 2. Send Client ID to API
• Publishing
• Overview
• 1. Create Production Build
• 2. Deploy to Production
• 3. Create Production Config
• 2. Redeploy to Production
• Next Steps
• Overview
• Misc
• Installing Node
• Completed Project

Introduction

This Quickstart is intended to provide a fast-paced introduction to Lore, to give you a sense of what the framework feels like and whether it's something you want to invest more time in.

Explanations for the opinions expressed in the framework will be left for elsewhere in the documentation.

What You'll Build

This is the application we'll be building. It is a Twitter-like app, pre-populated with characters and quotes from Chrono Trigger.

Concepts Covered

This Quickstart will cover the following concepts:

• Creating and building a React application
• Layout out your application visuals with mock data
• Routing
• Fetching data from an API server
• Populating your application with real data
• Generating and launching dialogs
• Authentication (logging users in)
• Authorization (restricting what users see)
• Resolving breaking API changes
• Pagination
• Infinite Scrolling
• Filtering data
• Normalizing API data
• Optimistic updates (displaying changes before server confirmation)
• Integrating Websockets for real-time behavior
• Publishing your application

Questions/Issues

If you have any questions or concerns while navigating through the Quickstart, please submit an issue on GitHub. Your feedback is appreciated as a way to make the Quickstart better.

Next Steps

Ready? Let's get started!