Category: React Answers

To use React Router with React, we install the react-router-dom and use it.

To install it, we run

npm install react-router-dom

Then we use it by writing

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Router>
      <div>
        <nav>
          <ul>
            <li>
              <Link to="/">Home</Link>
            </li>
            <li>
              <Link to="/about">About</Link>
            </li>
            <li>
              <Link to="/users">Users</Link>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </nav>

        <Switch>
          <Route path="/about">
            <About />
          </Route>
          <Route path="/users">
            <Users />
          </Route>
          <Route path="/">
            <Home />
          </Route>
        </Switch>
      </div>
    </Router>
  );
}

function Home() {
  return <h2>Home</h2>;
}

function About() {
  return <h2>About</h2>;
}

function Users() {
  return <h2>Users</h2>;
}

to add the Switch component with the Route components inside.

The Route components have the route components nested inside them.

The path is set to the path that users navigate to to render the component inside.

To use react-fontawesome with React, we run

npm i react-fontawesome

to install the icon packages.

Then we use it by writing

const React = require("react");
const FontAwesome = require("react-fontawesome");

const MyComponent = () => {
  return (
    <FontAwesome
      className="super-crazy-colors"
      name="rocket"
      size="2x"
      spin
      style={{ textShadow: "0 1px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)" }}
    />
  );
};

to add the FontAwesome component into the MyComponent React component.

To use react-typed in our React app, we run

yarn add react-typed      

with yarn

or

npm install react-typed --save

with npm.

Then we write

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { render } from "react-dom";
import Typed from "react-typed";

class MyComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <Typed strings={["Here you can find anything"]} typeSpeed={40} />
        <br />

        <Typed
          strings={[
            "Search for products",
            "Search for categories",
            "Search for brands",
          ]}
          typeSpeed={40}
          backSpeed={50}
          attr="placeholder"
          loop
        >
          <input type="text" />
        </Typed>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

render(<MyComponent />, document.getElementById("app"));

to create a component that uses the Typed property from react-typed.

We add the strings that we want to type out into the strings prop array.

And we set the typeSpeed and backSpeed to set the typeing speed and backspace speed.

loop makes the typing effect loop.

To add routes with React, we use React Router.

To install it, we run

npm install react-router-dom

Then we use it by writing

import React from "react";
import { BrowserRouter as Router, Switch, Route, Link } from "react-router-dom";

export default function App() {
  return (
    <Router>
      <div>
        <nav>
          <ul>
            <li>
              <Link to="/">Home</Link>
            </li>
            <li>
              <Link to="/about">About</Link>
            </li>
            <li>
              <Link to="/users">Users</Link>
            </li>
          </ul>
        </nav>

        <Switch>
          <Route path="/about">
            <About />
          </Route>
          <Route path="/users">
            <Users />
          </Route>
          <Route path="/">
            <Home />
          </Route>
        </Switch>
      </div>
    </Router>
  );
}

function Home() {
  return <h2>Home</h2>;
}

function About() {
  return <h2>About</h2>;
}

function Users() {
  return <h2>Users</h2>;
}

to add the Switch component with the Route components inside.

The Route components have the route components nested inside them.

The path is set to the path that users navigate to to render the component inside.

To use saved image with React, we can call require with the image path to and set the returned path as the value of the src prop of the img element.

For instance, we write

<img alt="timer" src={require('./images/timer.png')} />

to add an img element with the src prop set to the path returned by calling require with the local image path.