Has this ever happened to you?????
Tags: react, redux, beginners, webdev
Published: 2022-04-15 19:57:47

You are at your family's Thanksgiving gathering, successfully bobbing and weaving the normal conversational-argument-starting-traps like "When are you two getting married?" and "I knew it was a mistake for you to major in psychology".  No, Aunt Thelma, not today you say, as you deftly slip out of her clutches to "freshen up your drink".  


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Now here comes your brother's-hippie-third-wife who is looking to suck you into an argument with you sister about how the only way to treat your niece's cold humanely is with a three day goat-milk colonic cleanse.  Nope!  Sorry, Harmony, see you coming a mile away and it ain't happening!  You are staying on the balls of your feet, your head on a swivel, keeping it moving, staying off the ropes and not allowing yourself to get cornered and trapped in the middle of a debate with Uncle Frank about how the last president was just misunderstood.  And then?  It happens.  You walk into the living room seeking the sancuarary of watching the Philadelphia Sixers taking on the Boston Celtics with your little cousin and napping grandfather.  Everything is going swimmingly until your cousin says something so shocking, so appaling, so stupid that you almost spit out your wine in disbelief.  Your cousin starts telling you how James Harden is not only one of the greatest ballers of all-time but should have been MVP this past season.  


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Ummmmmm....excuse me???!!  What did he just say?  Is he being serious?  No, really, he must be joking, right?  James Harden is not even the best player on his own team for goodness sake.  An idiot can clearly see that Joel Embiid is not only the MVP of this past season but James Harden isn't fit to carry Embiid's luggage!  How can anybody be so ignorant?  So, you try to educate the wayward little chap on his misguided ideologies, but he's not listening to reason.  In fact, he's making even more ridiculous claims, saying that Rudy Gobert is the best center in the NBA this past year!  And that, my friend, is when you get involved in a verbal spat with a 12 year old that gets so heated that years from now it is still refered by family as "The Incident".  If only there was something you could have used to show little Billy just how wrong he was!  Well, now, there is!  Introducing The N-B-Apptastic!


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Using the latest in API calls, react.js, redux, and a little sprinkling of magical CSS-dust, the N-B-Apptastic provides you with the latest and greatest in NBA stats and allows you to prove to your foolish little cousin just how wrong he is!  
Upon opening, the N-B-Apptastic warmly greets you with a lovely picture of "King" (serious air quotes) James & the Lakers being made to look foolish on defense as Bam Adebayo is living his best life.  While this little gem is worth the price of admission, the real heart and soul of the app is located on this page:


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Simply input the names of the players you wish to compare, and KA-BLAMY!  You get a number and a graphical representation comparing the two players in key statistical categories. Now little Billy can't deny just how wrong he was! 


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In addition, N-B-Apptastic can provide you the latest news about your favorite player from trusted news sources like ESPN, Slam magazine, and the NBA itself! Plus?  N-B-Apptastic is responsive so it can be with you wherever you go!


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So, now you are probably wondering, how much does such a miraculous marvel of coding ingeniuity cost?  Can one even put a price on happiness???!!  Well, this is your lucky day, because the N-B-Apptastic can be yours with 12 easy payments of........NOTHING!  It is free and is yours to download [here](https://github.com/JAReichert/n-b-apptastic)

So, in conclusion, don't let your next family holiday gathering be marred with an ugly NBA argument like last year.  Get the N-B-Apptastic....today!

Shoutouts:
My Mom (Awesome lady)
Joe Frasier (Awesome Instructor)
https://www.balldontlie.io/#introduction (Awesome FREE NBA API)
https://github.com/kevinn03 (Awesome FREE NBA News API that returns latest articles based on teams or players.  I don't know if this Kevinn03 gentleman on github created this API or not, I think he did, so just in case, huge thank you Kevinn03.  It's awesome)