
Explore practical, real-world React projects from scratch in this course, designed for beginners with HTML and JavaScript basics, and for developers who want hands-on React skills.
Clone the GitHub repo, open the Pomodoro project in VS Code, install dependencies with npm install, and run npm start to view the finished app on localhost:3000.
Build a pomodoro timer app in React with start, stop, and reset controls and dynamic text updates. Learn how React renders and use the useRef hook to track timer state.
Explore building real-world projects in the React projects course by coding a Pomodoro timer with start, countdown logic using useState and setInterval, minutes and seconds formatting, and memory leak cleanup.
Build a pomodoro timer in react by implementing start timer, stop timer, and reset timer, storing the interval in a useRef, and updating the title with a 25-minute reset.
Build a markdown editor that converts markdown to html, showing headings, lists, block quotes, bold, and italic styling. Preview the output as you type and learn list spacing.
build a markdown editor from scratch, storing markdown in state, rendering a live preview with a markdown parser, and styling the output for a polished blog-like display.
Build a browser tab UI by moving a highlight with the mouse using React events, and implement routing to swap components and update the URL for about and features.
In this highlight tabs lecture, learn to build a React real-world tab UI by creating a movable highlight with state, mouse move events, and a reusable tab component.
Refactor the app and implement routing with react router dom. Create components and pages (home, about, features) and use nav links with end prop to highlight the active tab.
Refactor the app by extracting header tabs into a header component and moving routes into a routes file, renaming routes to router to avoid conflicts, and using react-router-dom nav link.
Build a rock, paper, scissors game by letting users choose an option while the computer randomly generates its move, and track wins and losses as you play again.
Set up a React rock paper scissors project, implement user choices with buttons and state, and add a computer player using useEffect to pick a random option.
Track wins and losses with React state, determine the winner from user and computer choices, and enable a reset, while rendering dynamic win/loss text and icons.
Implement rock, paper, Caesar game logic in a React app to determine win, loss, or draw with state updates and a losses-to mapping. Add a restart button and outcome messages.
Create a moving box controlled by four directional buttons and arrow keys, using useState, useRef, and event listeners in a real-world React projects course.
Learn to set up a React canvas and box, make it full screen with use effect, draw a 2D rectangle, and move it with four buttons updating x and y.
learn to handle keyboard arrows in a react project by adding a keydown listener with useEffect and a move(direction) function for up, left, down, right, and on-screen buttons.
React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is developed and maintained by Facebook, and is often used for building single-page applications and mobile applications.
Every successful business uses react and is looking for new talents daily.
One reason to learn React is that it is a popular and in-demand technology, so learning it can improve your job prospects and make it easier to find work as a front-end developer. React is also a good choice for building modern web applications because it is efficient, scalable, and fast, and it uses a virtual DOM (a lightweight in-memory representation of the actual DOM) to minimize the number of DOM manipulations required, which makes it easier to build high-performance applications.
Another reason to learn React is that it saves you time and money on development because it's component-based. You can break down an interface into reusable components that allow you to build dynamic user interfaces.
Overall, React is a powerful and widely used tool for building modern web applications, and learning it can be a valuable addition to your skillset as a front-end developer.
During the course we are going to use latest version of React - React 18.
As far as concepts we are going to cover
The React basics
Functional React components
React hooks like useState() and useEffect()
Handling user events
JSX and Rendering templates
Props and State
Creating and organising components
Building real-world React applications
Here are some of the projects we are going to build in this course
1. Pomodoro
2. Markdown Editor
3. Highlight Tabs
4. Rock Paper Scissors
5. Moving Boxes