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And then we’re not going to have any props because we haven’t talked about props yet. And that’s the one that we saw before, when we started up the application. And as you can see, here, we have this element here, we have the div that’s called AP. So if we look inside a republic and the index dot HTML, you can see that we have a div here, that’s called root. And this is kind of the heart of our application, we have the index.js. So this one is for fetching all the movies, and this one is for fetching one movie.

• That’s the main logo, and that’s the style image, we set the width to 200 pixels on this one, save it, go back to the application, you can see that we have the correct size here.
• That’s why we’ve developed a separate flashcards app where you can reinforce the new concepts that you learned using spaced repetition.
• The new count value is passed as a prop to each button, so they all show the new value.
• If you want to keep the hero image, you don’t have to do this.

So in this index.js file, we’re just going to import the start component in this file. Back inside of the code editor and the components folder, and inside a components folder, create a new folder that we call spinner. And also I can tell you, if you don’t have that plugin installed React by Example Lessons in Visual Studio code, I have a plugin that’s called VS code dash style dash components. So we import react from react, hopefully you’re starting to learn is now so this will be in your muscle memory later. And inside the components create a new folder, that’s called grid.

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And that’s actually it for this login component, I’m not going to do any heavy styling, as this is the bonus section of this course. Then we set the flex direction on this one is going to be column and we can save it to see what we’ve got so far. We align dash items to center and we justify the content Center also just the center stuff.

And by “the lights” I mean the background color (but hey, if you hook this up to an IoT thing in your house, I totally want to hear about it!). This saves you from having to write props.whatever all over the place, and makes it clear, right up top, which props this component expects. All of that syntax, by the way, is React (specifically, JSX).

Using Hooks

The “state” of your component that you use to render information and modify information. JSX is a syntax that looks like HTML but also has the power of JavaScript. This syntax helps developers write UI logic with all necessary elements like data fetching, conditions, looping, expressions, etc. As a beginner, you may not want to spend too much time in Babel or Webpack related configurations for your projects.

So we have this funny little smiley balloon here that will fall back to if we don’t have an image to go back to the home.js. So for now, I just mark it like this, we’re also going to import to hook. And this one, I don’t have a folder for this one, because this is kind of more container component.

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Since the useEffect() function is run on every subsequent re-render/update of the component, we can tell React to skip it, for performance purposes. We do this by adding a second parameter which is an array that contains a list of state variables to watch for. Passing props to components is a great way to pass values around in your application. Otherwise the React component will not update its UI to reflect the changes of the data. A React component is usually created in its own file, because that’s how we can easily reuse it (by importing it) in other components.

And I’ve placed it title at the end of the course, because I don’t want too much stuff going on when we learn react. So they’re going to kind of merge them together into react router, version six. So make sure that you navigate inside of the product folder, I’m going to clear this and then type in a CD, React dash or MDB, or whatever you named it. So let’s get started, make sure that you navigate inside of a folder where you want to create the reputation. I’m happy to see that you’re going to create this project from scratch.

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Before we had hooks, we had to use classes to have state in them. And they say it here also seems JSX is closer to the JavaScript, then to HTML, react, Dom uses camel case property naming convention instead of HTML attribute names. But as they say, here, this fun attack syntax is neither a string nor HTML, I actually don’t think it’s a fun attack as to say here, but alright, you get the ID, why JSX. So that’s why I also want to talk a little about JSX before we move on with this application. And I think actually that it would be a small l creating applications without JSX at least I think so.