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Christopher Stuart
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 27,771 PointsResponseData?
Can you just help understand one thing? At around 5:50, when you are creating the promises, the json data response gets turned into responseData--is that a name that you are creating or some sort of set named variable? Just a bit confused as to how it all comes together. Thanks
2 Answers
Zack Lee
Courses Plus Student 17,662 PointsresponseData is a variable name, its just a container for the response.
he is using the ES6 arrow syntax for declaring a function. thus he he writes:
.then(responseData => {
this.setState({gifs: responseData.data});
}
responseData is the function parameter and is passed the response that is being piped down the line, he just mutates the variable name into responseData so he can access different parts of the object, in this case the data object.
Christopher Stuart
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 27,771 PointsPerfect--thanks for this Zack Lee