First React app - The Greeting App
Before we dive into more deep and challenging topics, we'll have some fun by building an app. Our first React app will present our users with an input and send them a friendly greeting message.
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Lesson 4, our very first React app, the greeting app. In this very first coding example, we'll be building a really simple React app that accepts a name from our user and displays it as part of a nice welcome message. Let's take a look at what we'll be building. This is the finished example we'll be building before we refactor it. Once it's running, you'll see we have a simple title to welcome the user to the app and a set of instructions to invite the user to enter their name and click the update button. If I enter my details and hit the update button, you'll see that the text we haven't been introduced will be replaced with my name, Rob Kendall. It's a really straightforward demo that isn't too complex, but it highlights a number of key React concepts that we'll be building upon throughout the course. In the next lesson, we'll be breaking down the greeting app into its component parts and taking a peek under the hood to see how everything pins together.