React For Beginners — ReactForBeginners.com

Starter files for the React For Beginners course. Come Learn React with me!

The code in this repo meant to be a reference point for anyone following along with the video course.

To Start

1. cd into catch-of-the-day and follow along with the videos

The stepped-solutions Each folder contains the files for the beginning of each video should you need them. So, if you need any code, pull the appropriate file into your catch-of-the-day folder.

You are welcome to submit Pull Requests but I'd like to keep the code as similar as possible to the course content.

Code Use

You are welcome to use this code in your own applications. If you would like to use it for training purposes, please shoot me a message first to make sure it's okay.

Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Where are folders 2, 3, and 5?

Not all the videos have significant enough code changes to warrant an entire folder. Although you should be coding them all yourself, the code is available in the next video's folder.

❓ I tried installing the Babel syntax highlighter but it didn't work!

There are a few possible options:

• If you are on Sublime Text 2, you should Upgrade to Sublime Text 3.
• Some users have reported restarting works
• You can try the JavaScript Next syntax highlighter instead

❓ I can't set Babel as the default syntax highlighter!

Make sure you are in a file with the extension of .js before you do this step - you can't set the default for a file without having a file open!

❓ I can't see the React tab in my dev tools

Restart your dev tools or your chrome browser entirely. They will only show up when you are viewing a React app - so make sure you test it on Facebook or another website that is running React. It won't work on your empty main.js file until you import React from 'react'.

❓ npm start doesn't update the app on file save, or doesn't run correctly.

There may be a few different causes for this:

• Webpack currently can't handle folder/file names that contain parentheses.
• Webpack also has problems running inside folders for Dropbox/Google Drive type services. Git is recommended for keeping your files in sync across multiple computers.

❓ What Sublime Text Packages are you using? What Terminal Theme?

• I've written indepth over at WesBos.com/uses
• Theme + Colour Scheme → Cobalt 2
• JS Syntax Highlighting → Babel
• HTML + CSS Shortcuts → Emmet — You can get emmet working with JSX here

Changes

• Upgrade to React Router 4 Final API
• Move to external PropTypes Package
• Remove all use of constructors and super() - use class properties instead
• Moved from React-addons-css-transition-group to react-transition-group and upgraded from 1.x to 2.x
• Use official Firebase package for Auth as re-base is now only for data binding
• Move promise based code to async/await