Create a React app with Airtable

a dev guide by Divjoy

About this guide

This development guide walks you through everything you need to do to build a high-quality React app integrated with Airtable. Check out the tasks below to get started. To save time, you can also use our boilerplate, which gives you a complete React codebase with all of these tasks done for you. Okay, let's dive in!

Tasks

Setup your React app
Setup a React app using npx create-react-app and routing using React Router. There are many ways you can structure your app, but a common setup is to have an App component that defines top-level routes, with each route component imported from the /pages directory. The rest of your components should be located in your /components directory. You can then run your app locally with the npm run start command.
Setup a Node (Express.js) server
This stack requires server logic, so we'll be setting up a Node (Express.js) server that we can query from our React front-end. We suggest defining your Express.js routes in a file located at /api/index.js and then creating a file for each route handler in the/api directory. Next make sure all requests to /api/* get routed to your Express server port by defining a proxy in your package.json. Lastly, run your server with the node api command in a new terminal window.
Build your Airtable contact form
Create a contact form powered by Airtable and your component library of choice. You'll need to create an Express.js route at /api/contact that is passed the form data and writes to Airtable. You can then respond manually to any messages and mark them as replied to. Make sure your form properly validates inputs and display any errors returned by Airtable.

Get the code

You can get the code for this guide with our React and Airtable Boilerplate. You'll get a complete React codebase with Airtable integration, all the tasks listed above done for you, and a responsive multi-page template. It should save you about two weeks of development time.

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