Day 19: Add Habits function
Margaret W.N
Posted on August 4, 2020
After my one day vacation I am back to work. Took on the initially frustrating add habits function. This is how worked around it.
I wrapped the inputs in a form with an Id of form. In the index.js file I'll get this form element and chain an event listener. I'll pass in a submit event and a function as parameters. The function takes event as a parameter and perform the following operations
- Prevents default action of submit event.
- Gets the value of my inputs and saves them to a variable I tried using different variable names other than the database properties and the data wasn't being saved. I don't know why but atleast i know it doesn't work.
- Passes the captured variables as properties of an object(habit)
- Sends a post request with a URL and the the object
- And Lastly reloads the page.
const form = document.getElementById('form');
form.addEventListener('submit', async (event) => {
event.preventDefault();
const title = document.getElementById('habit').value;
const description = document.getElementById('description').value;
const habit = { title, description }
const response = await axios.post('http://localhost:4000/habittracker/habits', habit)
location.reload()
})
The results.
A shout out to @nathanbarrett for the pointers.
That's it for Day 19!
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Margaret W.N
Posted on August 4, 2020
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