Welcome to React

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Clone the Repo and Install Node

Let's go ahead and get started.

First, clone this repo.

In your terminal, in a folder where you would like to keep this project, clone the repo, and do the following:

cd intro-react
git checkout changes

Next, open the folder in your favorite text editor. I reccommend VSCode.

Great, now if you don't have Node installed on your computer, go ahead and install it!

Awesome!

Current Functionality

Now, inside your repo folder, run the following:

npm install
npm start

Your browser should open http://localhost:3000/

You'll see that our app can't really do anything! All we have is three buttons! We are going to add all the functionality.

So what's in our React App

Let's take a look of what our React App looks like right now.

package.json

This file is our roadmap of the app. It tells us the name of the app, the version, the different dependencies we need to run our app, and more.

public

This directory contains our index.html which directs us to the rest of the web application that requires additional processing.

src

This is where pretty much ALL of your code will go. You'll notice we have App.jsx along with other jsx files, but what is jsx. Think of jsx as a mix between html and javascript. We can write tags as well as functions and classes. Take a look at App.jsx. Some of that stuff might look familiar from html, like thos <div/> tags. Don't worry, we will get to that stuff in a bit.

Open a Pull Request

To get started, navigate to the Pull Requests tab and open a Pull Request for the changes branch. Make sure to title your Pull Request Changes.

Once you open the Pull Request, steps will appear inside the Pull Request itself.