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JavaScript React Basics (2018) Thinking in Components Use a Component with JSX

Tom Beals
Tom Beals
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Posted by Tom Beals
Tom Beals
5,447 Points

rI downloaded the project files for this video and react will not render in my browser

Downloaded the files and react wont work

1 Answer

Chris Ozag
Chris Ozag
17,122 Points
Chris Ozag
Chris Ozag
17,122 Points

After struggling with this for a long time I think I figured it out. If you're using the project files, you need to do two things:

A. In addition to including the react scripts, you need to include a standalone babel script - put this below the react script tags:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone@6/babel.min.js"></script>

B. You need to add a 'type' of 'text/babel' to the ./app.js script tag:

<script type="text/babel" src="./app.js"></script>

This wasn't clear at all in the videos but I believe it is what's missing.