React Tutorial using JavaScript

Build a project management application step-by-step in React by following the directions below.

This is a preview of the application you will build.

• Uses JavaScript
• Uses only function components with Hooks
• Uses a pre-built Node.js REST API as a backend to do CRUD operations
• Uses React Router
• After getting it working, refactor your code to use Redux
• Test the application using React Testing Library

Step-by-Step Lab Directions

Fundamentals

• Lab 1: Creating a New Project
• Lab 2: Running Your Project
• Lab 3: Styles Using CSS
• Lab 4: Your First Component
• Lab 5: Creating Data Structures
• Lab 6: Passing Data into a Component
• Lab 7: Displaying List Data
• Lab 8: More Reusable Components
• Lab 9: Responding to an Event
• Lab 10: Create a Form
• Lab 11: Communicating from Child to Parent Component
• Lab 12: Hiding and Showing Components
• Lab 13: More Component Communication
• Lab 14: Multiple Levels of Component Communication
• Lab 15: Form Values to State
• Lab 16: Form Validation
• Lab 17: Setup Backend REST API
• Lab 18: HTTP GET
• Lab 19: HTTP PUT
• Lab 20: Router Basics
• Lab 21: Route Parameters
• Lab 22: Build & Deploy

Redux

• Lab 23: Redux Install
• Lab 24: Redux Actions & Reducer
• Lab 25: Redux with React

Testing

• Testing Lab 1: First Component Tests
• Testing Lab 2: Snapshot Tests
• Testing Lab 3: More Testing Components
• Testing Lab 4: Nested Components
• Testing Lab 5: Container Components
• Testing Lab 6: Testing Forms
• Testing Lab 7: Action Tests
• Testing Lab 8: Reducer Tests
• Testing Lab 9: API Tests

Resources

Solution Code

• A snapshot of the finished solution code at the completion of each of the above labs is available in this repository.

There is a separate branch with the finished code after each lab.

How to Skip Labs

• Click this link to learn how to skip labs.

Starter Files

• Click this link to visit the repository with the starter files used in the labs.