Planet Facts with React

What a ride! This was my first React project and while there are definitely things to polish up, I am VERY proud of the end-result! I'm also looking forward to revisiting this project in a few months to compare my skills evolution.

The initial proposal of this project was to have a different URL for each planet but I decide to take a different approach to open up scalability (not sure how! new planets would need to appear inside our solar system!)

Instead of hard-coding each page and its contents, I decided to use JSON data containing each planet's information and map through that file using JavaScript/React to render the contents according to the interface actions (navbar clicks, buttons).

I reached the end-result rather quickly but wasn't quite happy with it. I quickly noticed I didn't take advantage of one the biggest selling points of React - components!

Once I had the page fully functional, I started separating my code into different components. Looking back, this is something I should have planned before starting to write code, so that I wouldn't need to backtrack. Definitely a lesson learned for the future!

It does seem like something went wrong with my images folder when deploying the React project to github pages, working on a solution to that! In the meantime, it is built correctly on my personal domain if you're curious: https://planets.brunosantos.dev/