React minimal

As part of an introduction to React, this repo attempts to show React in a most basic form.

• Many components can be simple functions.
• Data to render in the component is passed in as props.
• Assemble other components by importing them and calling them.

Setup

Clone this repo, and from the repo's folder

npm install
npm start

Next steps

• Add new mount points and render components into them.
• Add new components and use them inside existing components.
• Render complex data structures (objects in objects) as props.
• Check out the npm start script and the webpack.config.js file.
• Conditionally show child components using a ternary operator.
• Create child components from an array of data using .map().

Wat?

• Why a simple Node server and not webpack-dev-server? Students seeing this repo for the first time are proficient with Node/Express. We've chosen to not throw out the concept of client/server even though we admittedly don't need a server here. We introduce webpack-dev-server later. Today we just want to focus on React concepts.