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JavaScript Customizing Your Project

Posted by Daniel Cranney
Daniel Cranney
11,608 Points

Failed to compile: Attempted import error: './components/SearchForm' does not contain a default export (imported as 'Sea

This course is quite difficult, and feels like it could do with an update to make the process a little more straight-forward.

I'm receiving a failed to compile error... Failed to compile ./src/App.js Attempted import error: './components/SearchForm' does not contain a default export (imported as 'SearchForm')..

My code is... App.js

import { Container, Jumbotron } from 'react-bootstrap';
import SearchForm from './components/SearchForm';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <Jumbotron>
        <Container>
          <h1>Search App</h1>
          <p>This is a simple search app</p>
          <SearchForm />

        </Container>
      </Jumbotron>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Components/SearchForm.js

import React from 'react';
import {
    Form,
    FormGroup,
    FormControl,
    Button
} from 'react-bootstrap';

const SearchForm = () => (

    <Form inline>
  <FormGroup controlId="formInlineEmail">
    <FormControl type="search" placeholder="enter something..." />
  </FormGroup>
  {' '}
  <Button type="submit">
    search
  </Button>
</Form>

);

<Form inline>
  <FormGroup controlId="formInlineEmail">
    <FormControl type="search" placeholder="enter something..." />
  </FormGroup>
  {' '}
  <Button type="submit">
    search
  </Button>
</Form>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there, Daniel Cranney! In your SearchForm.js I'm not seeing the very final line:

export default SearchForm;

This was shown around the 5:22 mark of the video link here but seems to be missing from the code you posted. I believe that's what is causing the error you're seeing. I'm also wondering if maybe the bottom of that file got erased somehow because it also seems to be missing a closing parenthesis and semicolon );. I feel like maybe you accidentally deleted the bottom of that file somehow :smiley:

The very bottom should look like:

    );
export default SearchForm;

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

Daniel Cranney
Daniel Cranney
11,608 Points

Thanks so much, I went away and watched Guil Hernandez 's 'Create React App' workshop and it helped me to realise this was needed at the bottom of the file. React can be a little bit of a frustrating learning curve, but i know it's all worth it! Thanks for the response, I've learned a lot!