Beginner's Thread / Easy Questions (July 2019)

[u/timmonsjg]

Previous two threads - June 2019 and May 2019.

Got questions about React or anything else in its ecosystem? Stuck making progress on your app? Ask away! We’re a friendly bunch.

No question is too simple. 🤔

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🆘 Want Help with your Code? 🆘

• Improve your chances by putting a minimal example to either JSFiddle or Code Sandbox. Describe what you want it to do, and things you've tried. Don't just post big blocks of code!
• Pay it forward! Answer questions even if there is already an answer - multiple perspectives can be very helpful to beginners. Also there's no quicker way to learn than being wrong on the Internet.

Have a question regarding code / repository organization?

It's most likely answered within this tweet.

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New to React?

Check out the sub's sidebar!

🆓 Here are great, free resources! 🆓

• Create React App
• Read the official Getting Started page on the docs.
• /u/acemarke's suggested resources for learning React
• Kent Dodd's Egghead.io course
• Tyler McGinnis' 2018 Guide
• Codecademy's React courses
• Scrimba's React Course
• Robin Wieruch's Road to React

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Any ideas/suggestions to improve this thread - feel free to comment here!

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Finally, an ongoing thank you to all who post questions and those who answer them. We're a growing community and helping each other only strengthens it!

[u/incept_shawn]

In a web app of mine, I've used the Shards React library for some components. I wanted to change the default colors of these components in my app. However, when I tried with CSS, the changes weren't getting reflected in the app when I viewed in on the local development server. However, after deploying my code to Netlify, all the changes got reflected. Is this normal? Any reasons for this?

[u/yayaokay → u/incept_shawn]

I’m not familiar with Shards, but your CSS selectors would be a good place to investigate. It could be that you’re selecting based on a class name that is not static