How should my React UI handle empty menu data?
Handle it gracefully. A restaurant may have no menu items or the request may fail. Show an empty state message or an error message instead of assuming the data always exists and crashing.
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Two main endpoints: one for restaurant listings with summary data like name, image, and rating, and one for detailed menu information for a specific restaurant, including categories, items, and prices.
The listing endpoint powers the browse grid of restaurant cards. When a user selects a restaurant, you navigate to a menu route, fetch the menu endpoint with that restaurant's id, and render the detailed menu page.
Because real APIs return nested data with arrays and objects. Learning to read the response shape, extract the array you need, and render it is a core frontend skill the dummy API lets you practice safely.
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