What have we learned so far?
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Single Page Applications have specific URLs that are routed to display
different content.
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React Router is a third-party library that we can install and use with React.
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Since React Router isn't built in to React, we must import its components.
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React Router makes it easy for us to route URLs to components.
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React Router automatically manipulates modern browser history mechanics.
Now let's put that to the test!
Let's create the scaffolding for a restaurant website called restaurant_router
.
Your site needs to have five pages:
- Home (landing page)
- Menu
- About
- Contact
Task:
- Each page is a component - we're learning to use React Router here!
- Create a navigation menu of list items that Route to each page.
- These pages don't need to have much content — just the header at the top saying what the page is and a paragraph description of your choosing.
Fun Note: There's no reason you can't change the CSS, if you'd like! The CSS file that you'll change is App.css
. If you'd like, you can grab ours here.
- Thought exercise: Why is that the only CSS file you need to change?
Hint: Do you have react-router-dom
installed for this project?