React Starter Kit

Abstract

In this exercise, you'll be making a copy of the UI for Medium that looks like this:

static comp design

This exercise will help you get some basic muscle memory and practice rendering comonents to the DOM. All of the required assets and necessary components are provided in the repo. We have left comments throughout each component to guide you in the right direction for what kind of code to write. You are tasked with:

  • writing JSX
  • rendering components
  • passing props to components

Learning Goals

  • Begin to understand rendering in React
  • Begin to understand creating components in React
  • Begin to understand writing in JSX
  • Begin to understand passing data through props
  • Have a sandbox in which to practice working with React

Getting Started

Clone down this repo

git clone https://github.com/turingschool-examples/react-starter-kit/

Install the dependencies:

npm install

Fire up a development server:

npm start