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react-projects: Explore React Through Small Example Apps

A practice repository collecting small React projects, from a todo app and tic-tac-toe to Redux examples, a markdown editor, and a Gatsby blog. It is explicitly unmaintained, so it is best treated as a learning reference rather than a maintained foundation.

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Last commit
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20/100

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Activity
20
Community
17
Issues
21
Pull requests
21

+1 stars in the last 15 days

  • Fewer contributors than 86% of the projects we track

This is a useful learning archive, but its author says it is no longer maintained and its recent activity and issue handling support treating it as reference material rather than a dependable dependency.

Good fit if

  • You want small, varied examples for learning React and adjacent tools.
  • You are comfortable inspecting older practice code and adapting it yourself.
  • You need a reference for one of the listed patterns, such as Redux, routing, or a Gatsby Markdown blog.

Look elsewhere if

  • You need an actively maintained starter or expect fixes and responses to issues or pull requests.
  • You need recent releases or evidence of ongoing maintenance for a production dependency.
  • You need a project with a clearly stated license, which the supplied repository information does not provide.
All health signals
Last commit2024-08-19 (2.1 years ago)
Commits, last 90 days0
Releases, last 12 months0
Contributors2 (top contributor: 93% of commits)
Issues closed, last 90 days0
Pull requests merged, last 90 days0
Project age8 years

Checked on 2026-10-09 with the GitHub API.

Overview

react-projects is a collection of small applications created to practice React and related tools. It gives learners examples spanning component state and props, Redux state management, routing, progressive web apps, React Native, and Gatsby.

The repository is not presented as a single product or production-ready starter. Its value is as a set of varied examples to inspect while learning, with some projects linked to live demos.

Key Features

  • A basic todo app and a tic-tac-toe game for introductory React concepts.
  • Redux and Redux Thunk examples for managing article or API-backed item state.
  • A real-time markdown editor, with a linked live demo.
  • A trip-tracking web app using React Router, also linked to a live demo.
  • A todo progressive web app using Redux, styled-components, service-worker tools, and localStorage.
  • A React Native property finder using React Navigation.
  • A Gatsby blog example that renders Markdown posts using GraphQL and related plugins.
  • A Reddit API example that fetches posts from selected subreddits.

Use Cases

  • React beginners can compare small examples while learning component state, props, and basic app structure.
  • Learners studying Redux or Redux Thunk can inspect examples of store-based state and API-backed data handling.
  • Developers exploring React Router, React Native, or Gatsby can use the corresponding project as a starting point for reading and experimentation.
  • Someone evaluating simple React app patterns can try the linked markdown editor or trip tracker demos, while treating them as historical examples.

What you need

Detected in the repository

  • JavaScript (main language on GitHub)

Getting Started

From the repository root, install dependencies and start the app:

yarn
yarn start

See the README for project-specific details.

License in Plain Words

No standard license was detected. Without a license, the default copyright rules apply: you may read the code, but not reuse it. Check the repository or ask the authors.

Considerations

The repository is marked inactive, has had no commits in over a year, and has no releases in the last year. Two contributors are recorded, with most of the code attributed to one person; no issues or pull requests were closed or merged in the recent measurement period. The README explicitly says the projects were for practice and that the repository will not be updated or maintained, so compatibility and support should not be assumed. The supplied repository data does not specify a license, so check the repository before reusing code.

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