But Wait… There’s More! — Adding Like Functionality to JetLog + Custom Markers

But Wait… There’s More! — Adding Like Functionality to JetLog + Custom Markers [React + Redux] My app — a Google maps integrated memory map for users to plot their travels, was finished, well at least the foundation of it was. Users could create and sign-in to accounts and create and view their travels “Logs” in both a stream and as a pin on a map. JetLog Custom Marker A firm believer that the little touches can make all the difference, I wanted to take ownership of the Google Maps Marker. In my case I was utilizing as a React component wrapper to persist the Google Maps API. The component allows for a prop of which one can simply pass in an image as a named import into. react-google-maps Marker Icon https://medium.com/media/627faf408302e2f37c75b7e1774a9939/href Dropping in a marker template in Sketch, adding the JetLog branding, and resizing here and there until I was content, I had my marker. Marker w/ JetLog Paper Plane Logo Adding Likes +1 As we all know, no app is complete until people can like things. I kid, but adding the ability for user’s to like a log would allow me to explore and provide additional nuance to my application while garnering a better grasp of Redux reducers. Patch Requests To start I would simply establish a basic non-Redux Like component: https://medium.com/media/a777108779cf4e1343f14b5d9fcf4b62/href 2. Then I would get it working in Redux: https://medium.com/media/3f71264926b1d59c7248c83a1a6d869e/href 3. Having confirmed it was working I would then make all Logs responsible for managing their own likes in the API and persist their values server side: https://medium.com/media/1cd80becdbdef7b23925ca4eacc34cab/href As always thank you for reading and if you have any questions about what I’ve done here, what I’m up to, or just generally want to chat feel free to reach out to me at:xseanclarke@gmail.com