README.md

Wikisearchia

Brief overview:

This project is a search engine that uses the Wikipedia API to produce top results from a user's search. It also saves and displays your recent search history.

The code uses React Context.

Details:

UI Components:

1. Search Box - uses a local state value and once the search button is clicked, sends that value to the global SearchContext to get results and update search history
2. Content Box - uses SearchContext to retrieve the value to send to to the Wikipedia API endpoint. Uses local state to update content from different searches and display on the DOM.
3. Search History - uses SearchContext to display recent searches and when clicked, send to the rest of the app to conduct the search.
4. Logo - uses SearchContext to reset to default settings and display the homepage.

Event Triggers:

onKeyDown

1. When the enter key is pressed - executes search with the search input text and resets the input value to an empty string.

onClick

1. When a link is clicked - executes search with the target link's search value.
2. When the search button is clicked - executes search with the search input text and resets the input value to an empty string.
3. When the header logo is clicked - sets search input value to and empty string and returns to the homepage

Styles

Styles are written in sass. Main styles and global styles are in App.scss Component-specific styles are in src/styles

Steps to Run:

1. Clone or download this repository and cd into this directory on your computer.
2. Run npm i
3. Run npm start