💿 Remix Workshop

Build Better websites with Remix

Remix enables you to build fantastic user experiences for the web and feel happy with the code that got you there. Get a jumpstart on Remix with this workshop.

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Prerequisites

• Some experience with JavaScript
• Some experience with React
• Some experience with Node.js

System Requirements

• git v2.13 or greater
• NodeJS 14 || 16 || 18
• npm v8 or greater

All of these must be available in your PATH. To verify things are set up properly, you can run this:

git --version
node --version
npm --version

If you have trouble with any of these, learn more about the PATH environment variable and how to fix it here for windows or mac/linux.

Setup

Follow these steps to get this set up:

git clone https://github.com/kentcdodds/remix-workshop.git
cd remix-workshop
npm run setup

If you experience errors here, please open an issue with as many details as you can offer.

Exercises

You'll find all the exercises in the exercises directory. The finished version of each exercise is in the final directory. Each directory is a completely contained Remix app.

The purpose of the exercise is not for you to work through all the material. It's intended to get your brain thinking about the right questions to ask me as I walk through the material.

Running each app

Each directory in the final and exercises directories is a Remix app. The easiest way to run these without having to cd into each directory is to use the dev.js script in the root of this repository:

# to run the first exercise app:
node dev exercise/01

# or to run the final version of the 2nd exercise
node dev final/02

Each will run on a unique port so you can run multiple apps at once.

I suggest that as you go through the workshop, rather than opening this whole repo in an editor window, you open each exercise folder in an individual editor window (this will make things like ⌘+P more useful).

Instructions

This workshop follows along with the official Blog Tutorial. It's completely self-paced. The benefit of using this repository is you can skip around to different parts of the tutorial or even skip over different parts completely.

When you're ready to start a section of the tutorial, open that section's exercise directory in your editor and follow along with what the tutorial says to do. To challenge yourself a little extra, you can ignore the code snippets in the tutorial.

You can us the diff.js script to be shown the differences between what's in any of the apps. For example:

# to be shown the differences between the first exercise and the final version:
node diff exercise/01 final/01

This can be handy for you to run when you think you're done but things aren't quite working as you expect.

Sometimes there are changes that happen outside of the tutorial because they're unrelated to Remix but they can be handy to know about (like when we're getting the database ready for auth), so the diff command can help with that:

# To be shown the changes that happened to prepare for the exercise:
node diff final/04 exercise/05

Workshop Feedback

Each exercise has an Elaboration and Feedback link. Please fill that out after the exercise and instruction.

At the end of the workshop, please go to this URL to give overall feedback. Thank you! https://kcd.im/rmx-workshop-ws-feedback