I built this app using Styled Components and TypeScript and used the Google font Audio Wide to give a retro gaming look and feel.
The app makes an API call to Open Trivia Database which provides a completey free JSON API for programming projects.
Live view by clicking the badge (use Ctrl/Cmd + Shift to open a new window):
You can also clone the project and open it in localhost (See Prerequisites below).
- HTML
- CSS
- TypeScript
- React
- Styled Components
I wanted to gain a greater understanding of Styled Components and TypeScript together with React
Styled-components is a great library for styling. It uses scoped classes, allows a seamless integration with JS and helps to maintain the component-driven architecture that React already enforces.
Before cloning/forking this project, make sure you have the following tools installed:
- Fork the project
- Clone the project
- Follow the instructions in the console:
- Navigate to the project directory cd directory-name
- Install the dependencies npm install
- Run the project npm start
This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.
In the project directory, you can run:
Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.
Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.
Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.
The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!
See the section about deployment for more information.
Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can’t go back!
If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.
Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.
You don’t have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.
You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.
To learn React, check out the React documentation.