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JavaScript React Basics (2018) Thinking in Components Composing Components

Alex Burtson
Alex Burtson
6,228 Points
Posted by Alex Burtson
Alex Burtson
6,228 Points

Why am I not seeing anything on screen?

I'm using the workspace and I have all the same code as what's in the exercise, but nothing is showing on screen. I'm not even getting console errors.

Here is my code in app.js:

const Header = () => {
  return (
    <header>
      <h1>Scoreboard</h1>
      <span className="stats">Players: 1</span>
    </header>
  );
}

const Player = () => {
  return (
    <div className="player">
      <span className="player-name">
        Guil
      </span>

      <Counter />
    </div>
  );
}

const Counter = () => {
  return (
      <div className="counter">
        <button className="counter-action decrement"> - </button>
        <span className="counter-score"></span>
        <button className="counter-action increment"> + </button>
      </div>
  );
}

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div className="scoreboard">
      <Header />

      {/* Players list */}
      <Player />
    </div>
  );
}

ReactDOM.render(
  <App />,
  document.getElementById('root')
);

And here's the code in index.html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Scoreboard</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./app.css" />
  </head>

  <body>
    <div id="root"></div>
    <script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react@16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
    <script crossorigin src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
    <script type="text/babel" src="./app.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Does anyone know why nothing would be showing?

Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

Your html is missing a babel script just above the one for app.js

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

Did you download the project files or launch workspace from the video?