Overview: Creating a Project with React

Part 2: Building a Reactive UI with React

In this part of the course, we will build a React application representing the UI interface of Postagram, where users will see posts and comments and be able to like posts or comments, upload profile pictures, and visit other users’ profiles. At the end of this part, we will have the required knowledge to use React to handle authentication from the frontend side, build UI components from scratch, work with React Hooks such as useState, useContext, and useMemo, and send requests to a REST API and handle the responses.

Part 2 comprises the following chapters:

• Creating a Project with React

• Building Login and Registration Forms

• Social Media Posts

• Post Comments

• User Profiles

• Effective UI Testing for React Components

In this chapter, “Creating a Project with React,” we’ll focus on understanding frontend development and creating a web frontend project with React. We’ll explain the basics of frontend development.

Topics covered in this chapter

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Understanding frontend development

• Creating the React project

• Configuring the project

• Useful ES6 and React features