Added some example front-ends in react

front-ends/react/news-editor.jsx

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+import React, { useState } from 'react';
+import Select from 'react-dropdown-select';
+
+//DOCS: props.uri is the address of a live news-server
+//DOCS: props.newsKey is the key of the live news-server
+const NewsEditor = props => {
+	let titleElement, authorElement, bodyElement;
+	const [articles, setArticles] = useState(null);
+	const [index, setIndex] = useState(null);
+
+	if (!articles) {
+		fetch(`${props.uri}/titles?limit=999`, { method: 'GET' })
+			.then(a => {
+				if (!a.ok) {
+					throw `Network error ${a.status}: ${a.statusText} ${a.url}`;
+				}
+				return a.json();
+			})
+			.then(a => setArticles(a))
+			.catch(e => console.error(e))
+		;
+	}
+
+	return (
+		<div>
+			<h2 className='centered'>News Editor</h2>
+			<div>
+				<label htmlFor='article'>Article: </label>
+				<Select
+					options={(articles || []).map(article => { return { label: article.title, value: article.index }; })}
+					onChange={values => setIndex(fetchSelection(values[0].value, titleElement, authorElement, bodyElement, props.uri))}
+				/>
+			</div>
+			<form onSubmit={async e => {
+				e.preventDefault();
+				await handleSubmit(index, titleElement.value, authorElement.value, bodyElement.value, props.uri, props.newsKey);
+				titleElement.value = authorElement.value = bodyElement.value = '';
+			}}>
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='title'>Title: </label>
+					<input type='text' name='title' ref={ e => titleElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='author'>Author: </label>
+					<input type='text' name='author' ref={ e => authorElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='body'>Body: </label>
+					<textarea name='body' rows='10' cols='150' ref={ e => bodyElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<button type='submit'>Update</button>
+			</form>
+		</div>
+	);
+};
+
+const fetchSelection = (index, titleElement, authorElement, bodyElement, uri) => {
+	fetch(`${uri}/archive/${index}`, {
+			'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+			'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
+		})
+		.then(blob => blob.json())
+		.then(article => {
+			titleElement.value = article.title;
+			authorElement.value = article.author;
+			bodyElement.value = article.body;
+		})
+		.catch(e => console.error(e))
+	;
+
+	return index; //this is admittedly odd
+};
+
+const handleSubmit = async (index, title, author, body, uri, newsKey) => {
+	title = title.trim();
+	author = author.trim();
+	body = body.trim();
+	uri = uri.trim();
+	newsKey = newsKey.trim();
+
+	//fetch POST json data
+	const raw = await fetch(
+		`${uri}/${index}`,
+		{
+			method: 'PATCH',
+			headers: {
+				'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+				'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
+			},
+			body: JSON.stringify({ title: title, author: author, body: body, key: newsKey })
+		}
+	);
+
+	if (raw.ok) {
+		const result = await raw.json();
+
+		if (result.ok) {
+			alert(`Updated article index ${index}`);
+		} else {
+			alert(result.error);
+		}
+	} else {
+		alert(raw.statusText);
+	}
+};
+
+export default NewsEditor;

front-ends/react/news-feed.jsx

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+import React, { useState } from 'react';
+import dateFormat from 'dateformat';
+
+//DOCS: props.uri is the address of a live news-server
+const NewsFeed = props => {
+	const [articles, setArticles] = useState(null);
+
+	if (!articles) {
+		fetch(props.uri, { method: 'GET' })
+			.then(a => {
+				if (!a.ok) {
+					throw `Network error ${a.status}: ${a.statusText} ${a.url}`;
+				}
+				return a.json();
+			})
+			.then(a => setArticles(a))
+			.catch(e => console.error(e))
+		;
+	}
+
+	return (
+		<div>
+			<h1 className='centered'>News Feed</h1>
+			{(articles || []).map((article, index) => {
+				return (
+					<div key={index}>
+						<hr />
+						<h2>{article.title}</h2>
+						<p>Written by <strong>{article.author}</strong>, {
+							article.edits > 0 ?
+							<span>Last Updated {dateFormat(articles.updatedAt, 'fullDate')} ({`${article.edits} edit${article.edits > 1 ? 's': ''}`})</span> :
+							<span>Published {dateFormat(articles.createdAt, 'fullDate')}</span>
+						}</p>
+						<p style={{whiteSpace: 'pre-wrap'}}>{article.body}</p>
+					</div>
+				);
+			})}
+		</div>
+	);
+};
+
+export default NewsFeed;

front-ends/react/news-publisher.jsx

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+import React from 'react';
+
+//DOCS: props.uri is the address of a live news-server
+//DOCS: props.newsKey is the key of the live news-server
+const NewsPublisher = props => {
+	let titleElement, authorElement, bodyElement;
+
+	return (
+		<div>
+			<h2 className='centered'>News Publisher</h2>
+			<form onSubmit={async e => {
+				e.preventDefault();
+				await handleSubmit(titleElement.value, authorElement.value, bodyElement.value, props.uri, props.newsKey);
+				titleElement.value = authorElement.value = bodyElement.value = '';
+			}}>
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='title'>Title: </label>
+					<input type='text' name='title' ref={ e => titleElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='author'>Author: </label>
+					<input type='text' name='author' ref={ e => authorElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<div>
+					<label htmlFor='body'>Body: </label>
+					<textarea name='body' rows='10' cols='150' ref={ e => bodyElement = e } />
+				</div>
+
+				<button type='submit'>Publish</button>
+			</form>
+		</div>
+	);
+};
+
+const handleSubmit = async (title, author, body, uri, newsKey) => {
+	title = title.trim();
+	author = author.trim();
+	body = body.trim();
+	uri = uri.trim();
+	newsKey = newsKey.trim();
+
+	//fetch POST json data
+	const raw = await fetch(
+		uri,
+		{
+			method: 'POST',
+			headers: {
+				'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+				'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*'
+			},
+			body: JSON.stringify({ title: title, author: author, body: body, key: newsKey })
+		}
+	);
+
+	if (raw.ok) {
+		const result = await raw.json();
+
+		if (result.ok) {
+			alert(`Published article index ${result.index}`);
+		} else {
+			alert(result.error);
+		}
+	} else {
+		alert(raw.statusText);
+	}
+};
+
+export default NewsPublisher;