Dino Blog Activity

Lab: Dino Blog

Part 1

Let's have some practice creating a React component from scratch. How about a blog post?

1. Change directories to labs where you're going to create the next project

2. Create a repo called dino-blog ( make it public ). Add a README.md.

3. Clone down your dino-blog repo.

4. cd into dino-blog and add react

$ npx create-react-app .

If you need to refresh your memory, refer below or view the official create-react-app Github repository.

npm start

Note: If you are running something else on port 3000 - like a Node app or another React app, you may get prompted to use 3001 or specify a new port. You can do this or you can kill the process that's already running.

Part 2

1. Create a dino object in src/App.js that has the following properties:

   • title (example value: "Dinosaurs are awesome")

   • author (example value: "Stealthy Stegosaurus")

   • body (example value: "Check out this body property!")

   • comments (example value: ["First!", "Great post", "Hire this author now!"])

2. Create a Dino component inside src/Dino.js

3. Render your App component with the information from your Dino component and pass in the dino object as props values to the Dino component. For now, only display one of the comments, comments[0]. You decide how you want to display the title, author, body, and comment, or Take a screenshot and post in Slack. The Solution section below as inspiration.

4. Optional: adjust the CSS of your index file body to align your text to the center of the document.

Solution

Here's what the solution might look like:

Solution for Project

Going forward

Hang onto this code - we'll make some improvements to it so we can see all of the comments!