Discussion on: Pokemon API and React

Before I try to answer let me introduce myself.

I'm not a JS expert.
I haven't touched react 😬.
I still love JS.
This is my first comment.

well, let me try.

1. So you want case insensitive comparison of strings.

let pokemon = "pikachu";
let guess = prompt("What do you think it's? ");

if(guess.trim().toLowerCase() ===pokemon) {
  alert("That was correct!");
}else{
  alert("You need to do more  research");
}

first trim the string. Trim method removes leading and trailing white spaces from string.

convert user input to lowercase and then do comparison.

This is what I did in my code coach project on sololearn