Build a Video Game Aggregator: Use the API to Fetch Details for a Single Game

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Your Teacher | Andre Madarang

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Greetings! I'm Andre, a full-stack web developer and Laracasts instructor. My other hobbies include playing guitar, videography and gaming.

About This Episode

In this episode, we'll use the videogame API to fetch the necessary information for a single game page. We'll add genres, a game summary, video trailers, screenshots, and similar games.

View the source code for this episode on GitHub.

Published on Jul 1st, 2020.

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Episodes

Section 1 Styling

What We're Building

EPISODE 1 2:50 Free
Style the Index Page with Tailwind CSS

EPISODE 2 32:08 Free
Make the Index Page Responsive

EPISODE 3 5:26 Free
Style a Single Game Page with Tailwind

EPISODE 4 15:52
Make a Single Game Page Responsive

EPISODE 5 3:01

Section 2 The Video Game API

Fetch Game Information from the IGDB API

EPISODE 6 26:38
Improve Performance

EPISODE 7 22:11
Skeleton Loader

EPISODE 8 14:08
Use the API to Fetch Details for a Single Game

EPISODE 9 18:47

Section 3 Refactoring

Refactoring Views

EPISODE 10 11:04
Refactoring Views: Part 2

EPISODE 11 17:26
Refactoring to Blade Components

EPISODE 12 4:55

Section 4 Testing

Testing With HTTP Fakes and Livewire

EPISODE 13 12:11

Section 5 Animations

Animating the Rating Progress Bar

EPISODE 14 13:16