React and Redux

This workshop will give a whirlwind tour of React and Redux, demonstrating the core principles and providing a platform to build on.

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Focus of this workshop

We will learn about React and build React components using the well-known Todo application as our use-case. After making a few components and making them render to the screen, we'll install Redux. We'll then move our state over to be handled by Redux and inject it back into React.

What you need

• Google Chrome
• Extension: "React dev tools"
• Extension: "Redux dev tools"
• An text editor that understands JavaScript and React (Atom, Visual Studio Code, SublimeText, etc). If you're using Atom, you'll need to install the plugin react as well.
• NodeJS (latest) og npm (latest). Run node -v and npm -v to check what version you have. Check the latest version at NodeJS.org and upgrade if you're out of date.

How to get started

• Start by cloning this repository into a folder on your computer. If you've never used git before, you can alternatively use the the "Download ZIP" button to the right.
• Although you have this README.md file on your computer it's easier to read it on GitHub, so we recommend you keep this page open with the exercise tasks.

Exercises

This repository contains a set of exercises organized in folders. Each folder contains a README.md describing the exercise.

• Exercise 1 (start here)
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4
• Exercise 5
• Exercise 6

Symbols and notation used in exercises

Icons with special meaning

✏️ - A task you should do
📖 - A section of text to read (no tasks, just information).
💡 - Additional information.
❗ - Something important.
❓ - Open-ended question for the reader ("What do you think would happen if...")
💩 - Bad practice (don't-do-this)
⭐ - A bonus task (not required)

Keyboard keys

Will look like this:

CTRL + ALT + C

Diff blocks

Emphasizes how lines of text should change.

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