Building an E-Commerce Advanced Filtering System in React: My First React Project

Intro

In my journey learning React, I recently completed a project that taught me the fundamentals of filtering. I built an E-Commerce Advanced Filtering System that allows users to search and filter products by category, price, and color using buttons and custom radio buttons. Here’s a breakdown of what I learned, the challenges I faced, and how I built this project!

Project Inspiration

To get started, I followed tutorials from HuXn WebDev’s YouTube channel and THE BIGGEST REACT.JS COURSE ON THE INTERNET (PART 1) on YouTube. Their explanations on filtering methods in React really helped me understand how to organize and display data based on user input.

What I Learned

This project introduced me to:

• Filtering in React: How to dynamically filter products by criteria like category, price, and color.

• State Management: Handling state updates for multiple filter types at once.

• UI Elements: Using buttons, custom radio buttons, and a search bar to create a user-friendly filter interface.

Project Walkthrough

• Search Functionality: Users can search for specific products by name.

• Button Filters: Buttons allow users to filter by category quickly.

• Radio Button Filters: Custom radio buttons enable more advanced filtering by price and color.

Challenges & Takeaways

Learning to manage multiple states at once was a challenge, but it taught me the importance of planning the component structure and understanding the flow of data. Overall, this project made React's state and props concepts much clearer for me.

What’s Next

I’m looking forward to creating more complex React projects and deepening my understanding of state management. I’d love any feedback on how to improve this system or suggestions on my next steps in React!