9 React.

js Projects
for Beginners, That
Will Help You to
Build an Amazing
Portfolio and Get
Hired
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In this article, I’m going to continue

with the ideas for your portfolio, today
with React.js projects for beginners. In
previous weeks, I’ve published two
articles with project ideas for a front-
end developer portfolio.

I’ve started by providing you 11 HTML

project ideas for beginners, so you can
practice essential skills you’ve got in
your career path.

Then, you could read 9 Javascript project

ideas for beginners, and that would help
you practice your Javascript skills
because those projects could be done
using this programming language and
previous HTML and CSS skills only.

As your knowledge grows, you may need

some additional ideas for the project you
can do with a front-end framework. And
that’s why, today, I decided to create
another listing for the future front-end
developers, and give you some React.js
project ideas for beginners.
Remember, it’s important to keep the
projects you are building in Github or
Bitbucket to show your portfolio your
future employer. If you don’t know how to
do it, check out our video about setting
a new git repository in Github.

As always, for those who prefer to watch

than reading, I’ve got React.js projects
for beginners in a video version.

React projects ideas for beginners on Youtube

Are you ready to find out React.js projects for your portfolio?

React.js projects for beginners
When you’ve already mastered HTML & CSS
and Javascript training is done as well,
you are ready to do one step further. In
many cases, the next step is to learn
front-end frameworks, and React.js is one
of the most popular.

When you start practicing this framework,

you will, of course, use your HTML, CSS,
and Javascript skills.

When you start creating some simple apps

with React.js, it will be a great idea to
pay attention to Redux and React-Router
as well.

Redux is an open-source application state

manager. It will help you to keep your
application clean while you have to keep
a lot of data.

React-Router is a library used with

React.js to create and manage routes in
Single Page Applications.

With React.js, you can also use Bootstrap

or any other CSS frameworks you prefer.
For starting a new React.js project, you
can use create-react-app, if you don’t
know how to do it, check out our React.js
Course, or our Youtube video about
React.js.
Some of the projects which you will find
in the list below will require using any
external REST API like JSONplaceholder or
any other API, which will be mentioned in
the description.

For REST API, you can use the

Javascript fetch method or
external axios library.

Well, I’ve probably passed you all the

additional information you need to start
building your React.js projects for your
portfolio. Let’s start!
1. Simple CRM
One of the easiest projects you can
create using React.js is CRM. Inside the
CRM, you can list customers and the
projects or meetings, add options for
filtering and sorting by different
values, add a new user, and a button to
delete the user as well.

The amount of additional features depends

on you, so you can grow the project if
you’d have a new idea for the CRM
element.

Using Bootstrap may be an excellent idea

for this kind of project because you will
have lots of ready elements to create
components.
2. Todo App
Another project that comes to my mind as
something which everybody should do when
practicing React.js it a simple Todo App.

It can contain one or three cards or

boxes, where you will display the planned
tasks, in-progress tasks, and the done
tasks. If you decide on the one space for
all the asks, add there any colors for
the particular status of the tasks.

Another useful feature would be a simple

popup or modal to add a new task, and the
button to delete the tasks if they are
not necessary.

If you don’t have any idea for the

design, take a look at the one below, I’d
prepared for you.
3. Measure Units Calculator
Different kinds of calculators are a
great idea for the training project. I
propose to build a measures converter, so
you would have to select some measures
and create an application that would
recalculate them and display the result
in a different unit.

The app should have two inputs, where you

select the unit to convert and the unit
of the result you’d like to get. Besides
that, you need the input to add the value
for converting and a button which will
trigger the action.

Also, the result should be displayed

somehow, so make sure you’ll display the
div for the result conditionally.
4. Search and Filtering
The other example of the project I’d like
to offer you as a great position in your
portfolio is an application where you
should focus mostly on creating advanced
filtering and search.

The application should consist of the

table with data like users, books,
movies, or anything else that comes to
mind.

Besides that, you need to create a box

with filtering options and a search box
where, after typing more than three
characters, the elements on the list will
change according to the searched phrase.

It could be a great idea to combine this

point with the CRM project.
5. Movie Database
The fifth idea for the React.js training
project for beginners is a movie database
where you will display different types of
movies, show them by categories and use
React-Router to display details of each
movie on the details page.

You can also think of adding the

filtering and searching possibility, and
the upvoting and commenting below some
movies can be interesting.

There’s one more thing that may be

interesting for you in this project, and
it’s using the TMDB open-source API.
6. Localization App
The idea number six that I think maybe
something interesting for future front-
end developers is building a Localization
App. For this, you can use Google Map API
and create an application that will show
you the shops, bars, gyms, or restaurants
around you based on your localization.

It’s a great opportunity to get familiar

with Google Map API, which is commonly
used in different projects.

The application could consist of a map,

input for the location, in case the user
wants to input the location manually, and
a listing for the results. You could also
think of showing the directions to the
selected location.

Later maybe you’d be able to convert it

into the mobile app easily.
7. Blog
The next idea for the project to your
coding portfolio is a blog. And there is
also a lot of field to grow the project
like that.

You can start by creating the components

to display the blog posts, one to display
them as a grid and the other component to
display the whole post, with a title,
image, and text.

Then you could create a way to publish a

new post, which means you need to create
a form with title input, textarea, and
image upload component.

Later, you could add features like

comments, voting, or editing the posts to
your project, and who knows, maybe you
could use it as your blog one day.
8. Shopping List App
As you’ve already created the todo app,
it would be much easier to create a
shopping list add.

The app like this should be able to

display the shopping list as a listing of
products, ordered by the selected params.
Each of the elements should have the name
of the product and the amount.

The shopping list needs a way to create

it, so you need a simple form to add
products to the list. The products may be
reusable if users are buying them
regularly.

Another useful feature would be a way to

mark the item as bought or the method to
print the list.
9. Card-Memory-Game
The last project idea I’ve got for you
today is a simple game you probably know
from your childhood, and it’s a Card
Memory Game.

If you don’t know what’s this game about,

let me explain. Users have a board with
some images displayed as a grid, for
example, three rows with four columns.
Images shouldn’t be visible until the
user decided which one he or she wants to
see.

Then the user needs to discover the same

one hidden somewhere else.
If the guess is correct in one round,
then users got the point.

If not, the round starts for the second

user.

You need to remember about resetting the

board after the game ended, so the board
looks different each time.
Conclusion on React projects for beginners
It’s the third article of the front-end
portfolio projects. In the first one, I
was sharing the ideas for the HTML and
CSS projects, we moved to the Javascript
project ideas for beginners, and finally
today, you can read about the React.js
projects for beginners.

Remember about setting the Github

repository for each project, to be able
to show your code to your future
employers.

If you don’t feel confident writing

React.js apps, feel free to check
our React.js Course, our Youtube Channel
with React.js projects, and our blog,
where you can find React.js tutorials.

I hope you’ll find these React.js

projects for beginners useful while
building your front-end developer career.
Thanks for reading,
Table of contents:
• React.js projects for beginners
• 1. Simple CRM
• 2. Todo App
• 3. Measure Units Calculator
• 4. Search and Filtering
• 5. Movie Database
• 6. Localization App
• 7. Blog
• 8. Shopping List App
• 9. Card-Memory-Game
• Conclusion