Using Netlify Forms

It’s normal to have a back-end on your website for your forms to be functional. Say no More! Netlify offers hosting to static websites and serverless technologies, and it comes with super great features including form handling without a back-end. Let’s build a form with Netlify: What you will need: Netlify account GitHub account First off let’s start with a simple html form: Create a new html file and paste the snippet below: ...

June 9, 2024 · 1 min · Chris Achinga

How to fetch and Add Data in React from an API

In my first week in phase 2 of Moringa School Software Engineering classes, I covered the basics of getting data from APIs and working with forms. The Code Challenge for the week had the following tasks: Fetch Transactions from an API and tabulate them. Add new transactions. The transaction added should be posted to the backend API. FIlter out transactions by description The initial code for the challenge is in this commit. ...

September 26, 2022 · 6 min · Chris Achinga