Create a Dice Game with React and JavaScript

React is an easy to use JavaScript framework that lets us create front end apps.

In this article, we’ll look at how to create a dice game with React and JavaScript.

Create the Project

We can create the React project with Create React App.

To install it, we run:

npx create-react-app dice-game

with NPM to create our React project.

Create the Dice Game

To create the dice game, we write:

import React, { useState } from "react";

export default function App() {
  const [rolledValue, setRolledValue] = useState(1);

  const roll = () => {
    setRolledValue(Math.ceil(Math.random() * 5 + 1));
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={roll}>roll</button>
      <p>rolled dice value: {rolledValue}</p>
    </div>
  );
}

We have the rolledValue state that has the rolled dice’s value.

Then we create the roll function to set the rolledValue state to a random number.

Since Math.random only return a number between 0 and 1, we’ve to multiply the returned value by 5 and add 1 to generate a random number between 1 and 6.

Below that, we have a button that calls roll when we click it.

And we show the rolledValue below that.

Conclusion

We can create a dice game easily with React and JavaScript.