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React challenge

Practice using React to create dynamic apps in the browser.

Setup

Make sure you have Git and Node (v20) installed.

1. Use this template, clone your copy, cd into it
2. Run npm install to install all the dependencies
3. Run npm run dev to start the local dev server

Checking your work

Each challenge has associated unit tests. You can run each challenge's tests with npm run test:1, npm run test:2 etc.

Make sure you read test failures carefully—the output can be noisy but the error message should provide useful information to help you.

You can import and render the component you're working on inside challenge/App.tsx to see it appear on the page.

Challenge 1: creating components

Create a new file challenge/Greeting.tsx that default-exports a component called Greeting. The component should take a prop called name and use it to render a <p> element that greets the user. E.g. <Greeting name="oli"> should render <p>Hello oli</p>.

Challenge 2: using state

Create a new file challenge/Shouter.tsx that default-exports a component called Shouter. The component should render an <input> element and an <output> element. As the user types the text should appear in the output, but transformed into uppercase. E.g. after the user types "hello world" the output should be <output>HELLO WORLD</output>.

Challenge 3: mouse tracking

Create a new file challenge/MouseTracker.tsx that default-exports a component called MouseTracker. The component should render an <output> element. It should attach a "mousemove" event listener to the window and keep track of the clientX and clientY values (i.e. the coordinates of the mouse as it moves). Display the coordinates separated by a comma in the <output>.

E.g. if I move my mouse to the top left of the window the component should render: <output>0,0</output>. If I move my mouse 125 pixels across and 20 pixels down it should render: <output>125,20</output>.