/React-UI-Components

This is a project to be used by students to build out User Interfaces solely with functional components in ReactJS

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React-UI-Components

  • This repository is designed to be your first exposure into the world of ReactJS. There are 2 projects to complete in this repository. Project 1 is all about implementing a Social Card in ReactJS. On Project 2 you'll be implementing a Calculator. We've given you the file structure and have gone ahead and added all the files you'll need to be set up for success for each project.

Initializing the application.

  • This project was put together using create-react-app (CRA). You will not need to install CRA in order to make this project work
  • Each project has it's own package.json file in it, we'll chat more about this later. So it's already set up for you to install some dependencies that are needed for you to be able to work within the React Ecosystem.
  • To start the Social Card project, you'll need to cd into Project-1-Social-Card and then into social-card and run yarn install to retrieve all the dependencies.
  • Inside of ../../social-card you'll then need to run yarn start to open up a React Development Server that can take your .js files as components and bundle them up to work in your new environment.
  • You'll repeat this last two steps for the calculator project, but you'll need to make sure that you're inside of ../../calculator directory to make this work.

Instructions

  • For the first project you'll work on the project found in Project-I-Social-Card.
  • For the second project you'll work on the project found in Project-II-Calculator.
  • Use the design files to build out your User Interfaces.
  • All components can be built out using the provided html files found in their respective directories.
  • Each file has been set up to work within a react.js environment. Pay attention to the notes found within each project.
  • Don't forget about className vs class on your JSX elements!!

Project I - Social Card

  • We're going to break down this assignment in terms of how you should be starting to think in react. Remember that everything is a component.
  • All the files you'll need for this project are found in Project-I-Social-Card/social-card/src/components. You can find all the component files you should need in their respective directory. i.e. inside of the HeaderComponents directory you should see a few .js files and a .css file.
  • Feel free to add any files for any extra components you may feel the need to build.
  • Any of the styles you write in your respective .css file should be available for your the components where the .css file is being imported.
  • We have drawn boxes around possible areas that could be components.
    • The outer box will represent the App.js file.
    • The red box around the header could represent the header directory with a few nested components inside, the thumbnail image and the header content.
    • You could go so far as to break down the header content into a header and body component.
    • The next box around the social card represents the React Banner image and some copy found underneath.
    • And then of course the footer (Stretch Problem 1) which contains your icons, could be a container for all of your icon components.

Social Components

Project 1 MVP requirements

Project 1 Stretch Problems

  • Create a <Footer/> component that pulls in the icons and displays them properly.
    • Build out the functionality so that a user can click on the icons and have them react to events.
  • Ensure that your product is as pixel perfect as possible using any tools that you were introduced to in previous weeks.
  • Look up the moment.js library and figure out how to format your time-stamp in your header to be todays date.

Project II - React Calculator

  • For this project you're not going to be given any tips on how to break down the image file into components. Now that you've had some practice with the social card, this should be something you can start doing on your own. Just think about the image, and what potentially looks like a component.
  • For the MVP the calculator just needs to be displayed properly. Functionality will be a part of the stretch requirement.
  • All the files you'll need for this project are found in Project-II-Calculator/calculator/src/components. You can find all the component files you should need in their respective directory. i.e. inside of the ButtonComponents directory you should see a couple .js files and a .css file.
  • Feel free to add any files for any extra components you may feel the need to build.
  • Here is what your calculator should look like:

Calculator

  • BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE READ This
  • This is the time to stop and break down this image in terms of components. Each container on the screen should give you an idea of what your components should be. You're now about to begin your journey into learning how to think in React.

Project 2 MVP requirements

  • Create a <NumberButton /> component that can accept props and display any number/symbol passed down as text.
    • Example your component should be able to render a dynamic prop called text:
    • Your button button should also be able to accept dynamic props buttonStyle for styling
<button className={props.buttonStyle}>{props.text}</button>
  • Create an <ActionButton /> component that will be used for the zero character and the clear button.
  • Create a <CalculatorDisplay /> component that will be used as the calculator display

Project 2 Stretch Problems

  • Re-factor your App.js file to be a classical component that can hold state on it's constructor. (There is some documentation in training kit on how this works).

    • On your state object be sure to include a property for the total that can be passed down to your <CalculatorDisplay /> component.
  • Create some handler functions that can take in some information from an, onClick and use that information to update the total on the App state.

    • this.setState will be your best friend here :)

    GOOD LUCK!