Introduction

This is a code repository for the corresponding article on freeCodeCamp.

In this tutorial we are going to build a YouTube Clone Application from Scratch using React. This project is great for learning React because is covers a lot of concepts that appear often in ReactJS workflow.

Setup:

• move a copy of .env.sample to .env and paste your API-key
• run yarn && yarn start to start the development server

Covered topics:

• (no) lifecycle methods
• project structure
• destructuring
• state management (with hooks)
• passing props
• API calls

Suggested improvements:

• you should use Material-UIs makeStyles() hook instead of styles-prop to style your components
• probably more ...