React Practice Projects
Recommended Scrimba courses to practice this topic. Interactive format included.
Tutorials teach concepts. Projects teach you how to actually build things. The best way to prove your React skills to employers is with a portfolio of real, working applications. Scrimba's courses include capstone projects you build from scratch.
Who This Is For
Developers wanting hands-on practice with this topic.
Featured React Projects on Scrimba
Tenzies (Learn React Course)
Difficulty: Beginner-Intermediate | What you build: A dice-rolling game
Build a complete game where players roll dice to match all values. Covers: useState, useEffect, conditional rendering, event handlers, and CSS styling. This project teaches you how React components interact in a real application.
Start the Learn React course (Free)
Assembly: Endgame (Learn React Course)
Difficulty: Intermediate | What you build: A word-guessing game
Build a hangman-style game with programming languages as the theme. Covers: component composition, state management across multiple components, and dynamic class rendering. More complex than Tenzies, great for leveling up.
Start the Learn React course (Free)
Movie Search App (React Search Tutorial)
Difficulty: Intermediate | What you build: A movie database search
Build an app that queries the OMDB API, displays results in a responsive grid, and handles loading/error states. Covers: API integration, useEffect for data fetching, and search debouncing.
Advanced React Projects
Difficulty: Advanced | What you build: Multiple production-quality apps
The Advanced React course (13.2 hrs) includes projects covering: compound components, render props, custom hooks, performance optimization, and context API patterns.
Start the Advanced React course (Pro)
How to Get the Most From Project-Based Learning
- Build first, watch second, try to implement each feature yourself before watching the solution
- Extend the project, add features the instructor doesn't cover (dark mode, local storage, animations)
- Deploy it, put your projects on Netlify or Vercel and add them to your portfolio
- Write about it, a blog post explaining what you built and what you learned impresses hiring managers
Portfolio Checklist for React Developers
A strong React portfolio should include:
- A CRUD app (create, read, update, delete), shows you can build business logic
- An API-powered app, shows you can integrate external data
- A game or interactive tool, shows creativity and state management skills
- A styled project, shows you care about design and user experience
Scrimba's React courses collectively cover all four categories.
Choose This If
Choose this guide if: You want course recommendations for hands-on practice. Most require Pro.
Related Practice Guides
- Practice React Hooks, master useState, useEffect
- Practice API Calls, fetch and display data in React
- Practice Tailwind CSS, style your React components
Related Pages
- React Courses | All Courses
- Frontend Developer Path, structured React learning
- Scrimba vs Codecademy | Is Scrimba Worth It?
Build at least 3 projects: a CRUD app (todo list or notes app), an API-powered app (weather or movie search), and something creative (a game or interactive tool). Scrimba's Learn React course includes Tenzies and Assembly: Endgame which cover two of these categories.
Quality matters more than quantity. 3-4 well-built projects with clean code, good UX, and proper deployment are enough. Each project should demonstrate different skills.
Both. Start by following Scrimba's guided projects to learn patterns, then build your own projects from scratch to prove you can work independently. Employers value self-directed projects.
Turn React lessons into portfolio proof
Free Learn React includes capstones; Pro adds Advanced React + paths.