Let’s Build: Cryptocurrency Native Mobile App With React Native + Redux — Chapter III
Welcome back to developing native apps with React Native and Redux like a boss! Glad to have you here! ❤
This is a pre-sequel to chapter II.
Fetching The Data With Redux and Redux Thunk
We’re finally ready to fetch our data. We’re going to use the coinmarketcap public API. If you find a better crypto API — please let me know!
Make a src/Utils/Constants.js file and add our API base URL there.
Why? If the API URL ever changes — we only need to change it in one place, neato! 👍
Next— head over to src/Actions and make a file called FetchCoinData.js — here we will be fetching our cryptocurrency coin data. We’re going to use axios (yes I’m aware of the native fetch API) — I still very much prefer axios.
Quick google search shows why (more options, better API, better error handling).
npm i --save axios
Import axios and the apiBaseURL from Constants.js — also, add the boilerplate for the action. Try to…
