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Build a Quiz Component with React

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Aug 17, 2025
Duration
2h 27m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Creating a Quiz Component

    In this lab you’ll follow along with our instructions and build a simple quiz component with React 17.x. You’ll create several components across different files, pass data as props, and propagate events up and down a chain of components.

    In this module you'll create a Quiz component to display quiz information from state that contains data from a local JSON file. ### Solution The solution can be found in the solution directory.

  2. Challenge

    Creating a QuizQuestion Component

    In this module you'll refactor the Quiz component to display quiz question data in a new component named QuizQuestion.

  3. Challenge

    Creating a QuizQuestionButton Component

    In this module you'll refactor the QuizQuestion component to display quiz answer buttons in a new component named QuizQuestionButton.

  4. Challenge

    Creating a QuizEnd Component

    In this module you'll create a QuizEnd component that will display a reset quiz link after the quiz is completed.

  5. Challenge

    Displaying Quiz Questions and Handling Events

    In this module you'll refactor the QuizQuestion component to iterate over an array of questions and display multiple QuizQuestionButtons. Then, you'll create methods and event handlers that call them when the button tag in a QuizQuestionButton component is clicked and have those methods increment the position value in the Quiz component's state.

  6. Challenge

    Displaying An Error Message Based on State

    In this module you'll add state to the QuizQuestion class that tracks if a questions was answered incorrectly, and display an error message if the last answer was incorrect.

  7. Challenge

    Resetting the Quiz

    In this module you'll add methods and event handlers that call them when the anchor tag in the QuizEnd component is clicked, and have those methods reset the position value in the Quiz component's state.

About the author

Jon is an author, developer, and Pluralsight team member via codeschool.com. Lately, he's been working on content and products that help authors create content efficiently. Prior to that, he worked for several years on interactive learning at Code School, and later helped bring that to Pluralsight as Interactive Content.

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