Introduction to React Query Builder and prerequisites for the course

Introduction to React Query Builder

Setting up the application and adding a query builder

How to Create a React App With React Query Builder Using npm

Enhancing the query builder with fields from the sample sales data set

Add Fields and Operators to React Query Builder

Getting started

Adding another bit of customization to the query builder -- a Spanish translation

How to Build a Multilingual React Site with Query Builder

Changing or removing certain components of the query builder

Customize or Replace Default Component in React Query Builder

Using the various input types provided with React Query Builder, including numeric inputs and drop-down lists

How to Configure Built-in Input Types in React Query Builder

How to provide your own value editor in order to take full control of the rule manager

How to Customize the React Query Builder ValueEditor Component

Configuration

Preparing for the server setup by processing the output of the query builder into database-ready SQL

Create SQL Queries With React formatQuery and valueProcessor

Beginning the process of setting up a server to host the API

Push a React Query Builder API Server to Heroku With Git

Connecting to a database and finalizing the API

Add a PostgreSQL Database to React Query Builder

How to Fetch Data From a React API

How to Build a Data Table in React With AG Grid

Configuring a chart to display summary information about the data

How to Visualize React API Data in a Graph With AG Charts

Integrating with an API

Setting up a new API endpoint to serve geographic data (UN/LOCODE ports)

How to Build a New React API Endpoint

Configuring the query builder with geographic data fields

How to Add a New API and Variables to React Query Builder

Configuring the grid to show the geographic data

How to Fetch and Display Data With React Query Builder

Using the Google Maps API to display the geographic data on a map

How to Add a Google Maps Object to a React Site

Geographic data

Using React Query Builder for a completely different purpose

How to Bulk Edit Data With React Query Builder

Changing the update mechanism to cover more use cases

How to Add Features to the React onClickUpdate Feature

Polishing off the bulk editor with a custom value editor

How to Build Custom ValueEditor Components in React

Bulk edits

In this course we teach you how to create admin reports with React using a query builder. Admin reporting is a broad topic, and getting started can be overwhelming.

In five modules, we cover configuration of the query builder, setting up a server, displaying data in a grid, chart, and map, as well as some more advanced uses of the query builder. It's about three hours long and comes with code samples.

The course is taught by Jake Boone, who uses React Query Builder in real, mission-critical applications for a large engineering and construction firm.

In this course, we'll be using React Query Builder to create admin reports with complex filtering, bulk editing, data grids, charts, and maps.

Building Advanced Admin Reporting in React

, you can go to the terminal and cancel the execution by pressing 

. We'll no longer need the development server after this lesson.

To create a server that will host our application, we'll use 

 and log in with your Heroku credentials.

Next, provision a PostgreSQL database with the following command.

heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev

echo "web: node server/index.js" > Procfile

 folder and our environment variables, create a file called 

. Accept the defaults automatically by using the 

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# Server setup (part 1)

If your application is still running on <http://localhost:3000>, you can go to the terminal and cancel the execution by pressing `Ctrl+C`. We'll no longer need the development server after this lesson.

## Creating a server

To create a server that will host our application, we'll use [Heroku](https://www.heroku.com/) since they have a free tier and it's [easy to set up](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs?singlepage=true). You'll need to install the [Heroku Command Line Interface](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-cli#download-and-install) and log in with your Heroku credentials.

First, `cd` up one level to the root `myapp` directory. Then run `heroku create`.

```shell
cd ..
heroku create
```

Next, provision a PostgreSQL database with the following command.

```shell
heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:hobby-dev
```

Next, create a file called `Procfile` with the following command.

```shell
echo "web: node server/index.js" > Procfile
```

To ignore the `node_modules` folder and our environment variables, create a file called `.gitignore` in the root `myapp` directory with the following contents.

    .env
    node_modules

Now create a `package.json` file using `npm`. Accept the defaults automatically by using the `-y` flag.

```shell
npm init -y
```

In the `package.json` file, update the `"scripts"` section to run our application locally when we run `npm start` and to build it on Heroku when we deploy it.