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[MUSIC]
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Hey team, Rohald here.
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Today, we will create a portfolio site,
an essential tool for
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web developers of all levels.
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A portfolio is your personal showcase
where you display your best works,
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projects, and skills.
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It demonstrates your abilities,
style, and dedication.
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Creating a portfolio is not just
about showcasing past work,
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it's a project in itself.
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In this workshop, we'll create
a portfolio project using React.
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We'll solely focus on the React
aspect of the project,
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like setting up reusable components and
using state for a hamburger menu.
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We'll be using the project Travis
created with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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If you're interested to see how
the styles and structure were created,
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you can find a link to his workshop
in the teacher's notes below.
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In the project files,
you'll find the assets we'll be using for
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this project, like the project images,
the CSS file, and an HTML file.
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In this file, you'll find the structure
we'll be using to set up our components.
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Without further ado, let's start
by setting up our React project,
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we'll use Vite to bootstrap our project.
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If you wanna learn more about Vite, I've
added a link to our workshop on how to set
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up a React project in the teacher's
notes below this video.
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To create a new Vite project, we'll run
the command npm create vite@latest.
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Let's call our project react-portfolio.
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When prompted for a framework,
we'll select React, and
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we'll use regular JavaScript as a variant.
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Vite will provide a couple of commands
to install the dependencies and
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start the development server, so
let's run those as suggested.
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Once finished, Vite will give us
the port where our project is running.
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By clicking the URL,
we can visit our project.
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Perfect, let's open up our
project in VS Code and
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prepare it by deleting the app.cssfile.
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Next, let's bring in our images by
dragging the assets folder from our
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project files into the src folder of our
react app, replacing the existing one.
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We'll do the same with the index.css file.
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With those files set up,
I'll remove the contents of app.jsx and
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overwrite it with an empty component for
now.
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To quickly create a new
component like this,
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I'm using an extension
called ES7+ React snippets.
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It sets up a snippet that allows
you to create an empty component by
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typing R-A-F-C-E.
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Finally, let's change the title of
our project in the index.html file,
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I'll call it portfolio,
followed by our fictive name, but
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feel free to personalize
it in your project.
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In the browser, we'll see the content of
the app, which is just the title at this
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time, and the background has been
changed to match our new styles.
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Awesome, that's it for now.
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In the next video, we'll start creating
components for our different sections.
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