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Lab 3: Styles Using CSS

Objectives​

  • Install CSS
  • Apply CSS

Steps​

Install CSS​

  1. Open a new command prompt (Windows) or terminal (Mac) window.

    ! Be sure to open a new window. Leave npm run dev running.

  2. Run one of the following commands:

    npm​

    npm install mini.css@3.0.1

    Yarn​

    yarn add mini.css@3.0.1

    Warnings can be ignored but Errors indicate there was a problem.

  3. Verify mini.css was added as a dependency of the project in package.json.

    \package.json​

    {
      "name": "projectpilot",
      "private": true,
      "version": "0.0.0",
      "type": "module",
      "scripts": {
        ...
      },
      "dependencies": {
    +   "mini.css": "^3.0.1",
        "react": "^18.3.1",
        "react-dom": "^18.3.1"
      },
      "devDependencies": {
        ...
      }
    }

Apply CSS​

  1. Open and delete the contents of src\App.css

  2. Open the file src\App.jsx.

  3. Delete all the code in src\App.jsx.

  4. You can also delete these two files as they will no longer by used in the project.

    src\assets\react.svg
    public\vite.svg

  5. Remove the Vite favicon and update the page title.

    index.html​

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
      <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    -   <link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/vite.svg" />
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    -   <title>Vite + React</title>
    +   <title>Project Pilot</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <div id="root"></div>
        <script type="module" src="/src/main.jsx"></script>
      </body>
    </html>

  6. Add this code.

    src\App.jsx​

    function App() {
      return (
        <>
          <blockquote cite="Benjamin Franklin">
            Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
          </blockquote>
        </>
      );
    }

    export default App;

  7. Open the file src\index.css

  8. Delete the current contents of the file.

  9. Import the mini.css stylesheet you you installed earlier in this lab.

src\index.css​

@import '../node_modules/mini.css/dist/mini-default.min.css';

Alternatively, you could choose a dark theme: mini-dark.min.css or a nordic theme: mini-nord.min.css 7. Verify you see the following output in the browser

  1. Verify the page displays the following quote with the styles shown. image

Mini.css is a minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework. Mini.css is similar to Bootstrap but lighter and requires fewer CSS classes so you can focus on learning React but still get a professional look.

✔ You have completed Lab 3​