React Forms

This is a lesson about ReactJS Forms. Please follow the steps below to get started.

Set up your environment: See "Quick Setup" to get started by cloning this repo or see "Set Up From Scatch" below to get started from scratch.
Create A Sample Form Component

Set Up From Scatch

1. Create React App

create-react-app react-forms

2. cd into app directory

cd react-forms

3. Open In Visual Studio Code

code .

4. Install Dependencies

StyleGuidist

npm install --save-dev react-styleguidist

Semantic-UI-React

npm install semantic-ui-react

Semantic-UI-CSS

npm install semantic-ui-css

React-Router-Dom

npm install --save react-router-dom

JSON Server

npm i json-server

WebPack: See next step

5. Add WebPack to your package.json

After installing dependencies, place the following line of code under devDependencies in your package.json

"webpack": "^3.8.1"

6. npm install

npm i

7. Add the following to index.js

import 'semantic-ui-css/semantic.min.css';

8. Create directories and files

mkdir src/components
mkdir src/styles
touch src/styles/styleguidist.css
touch styleguide.config.js

9. Copy code below to styleguide.config.js

module.exports = {
    components: 'src/components/**/*.js',
    // ignore: ['**/components/views/*.js'],
    ribbon: {
      url: 'http://github.com/drteresavasquez',
      text: 'See App In Action'
    },
    template: {
      favicon: './public/favicon.ico',
      head: {
        links: [
          {
            rel: 'stylesheet',
            href: './node_modules/semantic-ui-css/semantic.min.css'
          },
          {
            rel: 'stylesheet',
            href: './src/styles/styleguidist.css'
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    theme: {
        color: {
          link: 'white',
          linkHover: 'salmon',
          sidebarBackground: '#000000',
        },
        fontFamily: {
          base: '"Droid Sans"',
        }, 
        fontSize:{
          small: 13,
        }
      }
};

10. Start Your Servers in new terminal tabs

Note: You can npm i concurrently and set up your app to take one command to start all servers.

Tab 1

npx styleguidist server

Tab 2

npm start

Tab 3

json-server --watch -p 4000 db.json

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