This is a simple project used to review the basics of React and JavaScript. The premise for the project comes from Project #6 of this repository made and used by DevMountain for teaching React.
The project tasks students with the following:
Create an app that displays a to-do list. You will need two components, the App component and a Todo component. The App component should be responsible for getting new tasks and storing the list of tasks. The Todo component should be responsible for displaying the individual tasks from the App component. The App component should create a list of 'Todo' components passing down a task into the Todo component as a prop and display the list.
The instructions tell us right off the bat how many components we will need (2) and their names (App and Todo). Great, we know that create-react-app will already generate App for us as our highest level component. So we will need to create one additional component called Todo. Following good organizational practice, we will create a folder called components inside of src (remember src is where our React application lives). Then within components we will create a Todo.js file for my Todo component (always capitalize component names!). Since we are not concerned with styling, this should be all of the folder setup that we need.
Since we are told that Todo is just to display the list items that we create we will keep it stateless. Whenever we hear that a component will just display something we should think functional, stateless component (it is a good rule of thumb). If logic needs to be executed within a component then you would likely want to choose a class-based, stateful component. In this case, App will be class-based and stateful since it will be handling input and storing that input in a list (array).
We know that we will need to be able to type something and then add that input to our list. We will need two methods to achieve this. Our first method will handle updating our input property on state as we type into our input box. The second method will handle adding our input value to our list property which is an array.