How to Style a React Redux App Like Windows XP With XP.css

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  • [00:00 - 00:10] Prepare the styles. We're going to use the XPCSS by Adam Hamad for our styles. Install this package, yarn, add, XP, CSS.

    [00:11 - 00:31] Go to index CSS and import tilde, XP.css, dist, XP, CSS. Also add the icons. Copy them from the completed project folder, code 04, Redux completed as our C icons.

    [00:32 - 00:42] You need to create a similar folder in your project. You should have it in your C and there should be an icons folder. Now update the app layout. Open up tss, remove all the old layout.

    [00:43 - 00:59] Now you should have a div with class name window inside of it a div with class name title bar. Inside of it div with class name title bar text saying Redux, Paint.

    [01:00 - 01:15] Below the text, render the div with a bottom. Area label should be close and class name, title bar controls. Then launch the app, yarn, start.

    [01:16 - 01:23] If you launch the app, it should look somewhat like a Windows XP window with the close button and the blue title bar.