Creating the list page

In the first phase, we will create the list page to show cars with paging, filtering, and sorting features. Run your unsecured Spring Boot backend. The cars can be fetched by sending the GET request to the http://localhost:8080/api/cars URL, as shown in Chapter 4, Creating a RESTful Web Service with Spring Boot.

Figure 11.1 – Fetching cars

Now, let's inspect the JSON data from the response. The array of cars can be found in the _embedded.cars node of the JSON response data.

Once we know how to fetch cars from the backend, we are ready to implement the list page to show the cars. The following steps describe this in practice:

1. Open the carfront React app with VS Code (the React app we created in the previous chapter).
2. When the app has multiple components, it is recommended that you create a folder for them. Create a new folder called components in the src folder. With VS Code, you can create a folder by right...