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react-trivia-starter

Project Description

In this unit, coders will work in groups to build a project using HTML, CSS, React. Their task is to build out the front-end for a Kahoot style question game that displays a question and the possible answers, allows a user to choose answer and determine whether they are right or wrong.

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Day 1: React Components and props

Goal 1: Render a question from sample_data.json on the screen.

• In App.jsx, create a Question component.
• Render an instance of <Question /> inside of <App />.
• Add props to <Question /> with the text "Question goes here".
• In <App />, add a variable to set the current question number to 0.
• Replace "Question goes here" with the question.text field found in data for the first question.
  • HINT: Use the question number variable you just wrote.
• BONUS: Add styling to your app.

Goal 2: Render a "Next Question" button on the screen.

• In App.jsx, create a NextQuestion component.
• Write the JSX to display a button for the user to click for the next question. (It will not work yet.)
• Render an instance of <NextQuestion /> inside of <App />.

Day 2: Nested components and state

Goal 1: Render the answer choices from sample_data.json on the screen.

• In App.jsx, create an Answer component.
• Render an instance of <Answer /> inside of <Question />.
• Add props to <Answer /> with the text "Answer goes here".
  • Pass props for the answer choices into <Question />.
  • Use those props to render the Answer components inside <Question /> to display the answer choices.
• Refactor to use map to map over all answer choices.

Goal 2: Render a button on the screen that reveals the correct answer when clicked.

• Using useState in <App />, create a boolean state variable called answerDisplayed to keep track of whether the correct answer is shown.
• Add a button to the App component that will update the state to display the correct answer when it is clicked.
• Create an onClick function that sets the state to display the correct answer choice when your button is clicked.
  • HINT: Access the correct answer choice using sample_data.json.

Day 3: Event handlers

Goal 1: Add functionality to your "Next Question" button so that it renders the next question when clicked.

• Add state to <App /> using the useState React hook to keep track of the current question number.
  • Replace the current question number variable that you wrote in Day 1.
• Create a function that updates the state to the next question number.
• Make a prop on <NextQuestion /> to pass the prop down to the button element to call that function when the button is clicked.
• Check that every part of your question and answer updates to reflect the current question number.
• Reset the state of answerDisplayed when the Next Question button is clicked so the correct answer stops being displayed.
• BONUS: Add conditional rendering to hide <NextQuestion /> when there are no more next questions.

Goal 2: Add functionality so that when the user clicks on an answer choice, the correct answer appears.

• Using useState in <App />, create a state variable to keep track of which answer choice the user clicks.
  • Inside the map function for the Answer components, add an event handler that updates the state to be the choice that the user clicks.
  • HINT: Use props to pass down the state from <App />.
  • HINT: Don't forget to pass your onClick down as a prop as well.
• Inside <App /> (below state and above return), write a conditional that checks if the answer clicked is the correct answer.
  • Display text on the screen telling the user if their answer choice was correct.
  • Display text on the screen telling the user what the correct answer was.
  • HINT: To do this, you should create a variable and display that variable inside your return statement.
  • BONUS: Use template literals instead of string concatenation.

Goal 3: Sort your Trivia app into separate files and import/export the components.

• Create a new .js file inside the components folder for each of your components.
• Move the code for your components into their new files.
• Add an export to each of your components.
• Import all of your components into the correct files.

Extensions!

• Make a timer that resets the game when the timer runs out.
• Make a counter that keeps track of how many times you've guessed the correct answer.
• Change the color of the answer buttons when the user guesses. For example turn the button with the correct answer to green.
• Make it a two player game.
• Anything else you want!