Learn Flexbox, Leaflet and Mocha

If you've ever worked on a website for a business, there's a good chance you've included a map.

A Google Map embed is sufficient for showing a location, but doesn't leave you many customization options.

React Leaflet to the rescue!

In this course, Colby Fayock will guide you through a series of lessons and challenges that will build your map making skills as you build out a web app for a fictional restaurant.

You'll get practice with handling API keys and using React Hooks to implement a custom interactive map complete with metadata and additional overlays.

This course has built-in challenges that you are encouraged to pause and work through, but feel free to just watch.

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Build Maps with React Leaflet

In this collection, you'll learn the basics of creating a new map in your React application with React Leaflet. We'll walk through adding the map itself as well as adding markers with popups, different shapes, and increasingly complex features to your map!

Mapping with React Leaflet

It's tempting to pick up a framework which has preselected flexbox or grid as the layout tool of choice, but it's important to learn when and why to use each method. This leads to slimmer stylesheets which results in better site performance, and less likelihood for "hacks" to make one method do what the other does inherently better.

Throughout this collection, we will be progressively styling a responsive landing page template while building your knowledge on when to select grid or flexbox for any layout scenario. Spoiler alert: sometimes the best solution is using both!

The specification describes a CSS box model optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout model, the children of a flex container can be laid out in any direction, and can “flex” their sizes, either growing to fill unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the parent.

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Create a Landing Page with CSS Grid and Flexbox

Flexbox is a powerful way to layout HTML so that elements can grow to fit the size of their container.  It can also control how the elements are positioned within a flexed container.  

Once you start thinking in `rows` and `columns`, you can control almost any flexed layout with just a few simple flexbox layout primitives.

Get Started with Flexbox CSS Layouts

This playlist covers various aspects of CSS including different rules, selectors, and patterns

CSS Tips and Tricks

Flexbox is a wonderful tool built into the CSS specification. Using flexbox doesn't require any special framework or library, just a browser with CSS3 support. It is so awesome, and makes the arranging elements on a page almost fun!

Flexbox Fundamentals

After setting `display: flex` on a parent element, you can use `flex-direction` to switch the container to be either a `row` or a `column`.

We also switch the body between `row` and `column`.

Flex into a Row or a Column with flex-direction

We can space items inside of a flexed component in the "on-axis" direction, with `justify-content`.

Justify content can take the following values: `flex-start`, `flex-end`, `center`, `space-between`, `space-around`, or `space-evenly`

Change the Spacing of Flexed Components with justify-content

We changed the axis layout with 'justify-content', and the "off axis" layout is controlled by 'align-items'.  The most common values are `flex-start`, `flex-end`, or `center`.

Change the off-axis Alignment of a Flexed Container with `align-items`

To set the wrap settings of elements inside of a container, we can set the `flex-wrap` css attribute.  The most common values are: `nowrap`, `wrap`, or `wrap-reverse`

Wrap Elements Inside of a Flexed Container with `flex-wrap`

To stretch individual elements to fit the given space, we can set the `flex-grow` or `flex` attributes to any integer.  Other surrounding elements will grow proportionally to their `flex-grow` or `flex` attributes.

Proportionally Grow a Flexed Element by Setting `flex-grow` or `flex` Styles

In this lesson, you will learn how to add a map to your React application using React Leaflet. We will walk through importing and configuring the Map and TileLayer components from React Leaflet to set up the new map.

Create a New Map using React Leaflet

In this lesson, you will learn how to add a Marker and Popup component to a Map when using React Leaflet. We'll walk you through importing the components and adding each one to the Map. Additionally, we'll resolve an issue with loading marker images that's inherent to creating a new React Leaflet map in Create React App, which we'll fix by manually importing the image from Leaflet and configuring those images to the marker.

Add a React Leaflet Marker with a Popup to a Map

In this lesson, you will learn how to add the Polygon and Circle shape components to a Map when using React Leaflet. We'll walk you through importing both components, adding each component to the Map, and setting a unique color for each shape.

Add Shapes to a Map in React Leaflet

In this lesson, you'll learn how to style shapes on your map to change the look and feel using React Leaflet's API. We'll use React component props like color and weight on our shapes to change the colors and styles.

Style React Leaflet Shapes using Component Props

In this lesson, you'll learn how to use CSS to style and animate shapes on your React Leaflet map. We'll use the className prop to add a custom class and add CSS to customize our shapes.

Style and Animate a React Leaflet Shape with Custom CSS

In this lesson, you will learn how to use React hooks to interface with the Leaflet Map API in React Leaflet. We'll connect a ref to our Map component using the useRef hook and then use the useEffect hook to access that ref, find our Map instance, and use it to fly to a new location.

[More details on the Leaflet Map API](https://leafletjs.com/reference-1.6.0.html#map)

Interface with the React Leaflet Map API with the useRef and useEffect React Hooks

In this lesson, you learn how to use the React Leaflet ZoomControl component to add a custom zoom control to your map. We'll walk through removing the default control to avoid duplicates, using the ZoomControl position prop to change its location, and setting custom icons with the zoomInText and zoomOutText props.

Change the React Leaflet Map ZoomControl Location and Icons

In this lesson, you will learn how to add GeoJSON data to a map in React Leaflet. Using the National Parks in the United States, we'll import a GeoJSON document, create a new Leaflet GeoJSON instance, and add a marker with a popup for each park.

[Parks Locations Example](https://www.nps.gov/maps/tools/npmap.js/examples/geojson-layer/)
[Parks GeoJSON](https://www.nps.gov/lib/npmap.js/4.0.0/examples/data/national-parks.geojson)

Add GeoJSON Location Data to a Map Using Markers and Popups in React Leaflet

In this lesson, we'll add a new tile service as our basemap in React Leaflet. Using the NASA GIBS Blue Marble, we'll update the TileLayer component's url and attribution props to the new service. We'll also add the maxNativeZoom prop which allows us to configure the maximum zoom allowable for the service.

[More info about NASA GIBS imagery](https://earthdata.nasa.gov/eosdis/science-system-description/eosdis-components/gibs)
[GIBS Imagery API](https://wiki.earthdata.nasa.gov/display/GIBS/GIBS+Available+Imagery+Products)

### NASA GIBS Blue Marble Tile Server
Endpoint: https://gibs-{s}.earthdata.nasa.gov/wmts/epsg3857/best/BlueMarble_ShadedRelief_Bathymetry/default//EPSG3857_500m/{z}/{y}/{x}.jpeg
Attribution: NASA Blue Marble, image service by OpenGeo

Change the Map Tile Service of a React Leaflet TileLayer Basemap to NASA GIBS Blue Marble

In this lesson, we'll add a LayersControl toggle to allow us to change between multiple TileLayer basemaps in React Leaflet. Using the NASA GIBS Blue Marble, we'll add an additional TileLayer component, wrap our two TileLayers in BaseLayer components, and wrap all of our layers in a LayersControl to toggle our basemaps.

[More info about NASA GIBS imagery](https://earthdata.nasa.gov/eosdis/science-system-description/eosdis-components/gibs)
[GIBS Imagery API](https://wiki.earthdata.nasa.gov/display/GIBS/GIBS+Available+Imagery+Products)

### NASA GIBS Blue Marble Tile Server
Endpoint: https://gibs-{s}.earthdata.nasa.gov/wmts/epsg3857/best/BlueMarble_ShadedRelief_Bathymetry/default//EPSG3857_500m/{z}/{y}/{x}.jpeg
Attribution: &copy; NASA Blue Marble, image service by OpenGeo

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