About this guide
This development guide walks you through everything you need to do to build a high-quality React app integrated with Google Sheets. 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 usingnpx create-react-app
and routing using React Router. There are many ways you can structure your app, but a common setup is to have anApp
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 thenpm 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 yourpackage.json
. Lastly, run your server with thenode api
command in a new terminal window.Build your Google Sheets contact form
Create a contact form powered by Google Sheets 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 Google Sheets. 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 Google Sheets.
Get the code
You can get the code for this guide with our React and Google Sheets Boilerplate. You'll get a complete React codebase with Google Sheets 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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