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Create a tic-tac-toe game in React.js

Aneeqa Khan
5 min readJul 24, 2024
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Today, while scrolling through Pinterest, I came across an adorable tic-tac-toe board (a Chocolate board) that I instantly wanted to create. I thought, why not build it using CSS and turn it into a game as well?

First, I created a React app using the create-react-app command and removed all the default code from App.js.

Create a Game Board Component

I started with a game board designed to look like chocolate, with Marshmallow and Strawberry as the players. (I know, it sounds delicious! 😋).

Gameboard

The game board displays a grid of Cell components, each representing a cell in the tic-tac-toe game. The Cell components are responsible for rendering individual cells and handling user interactions.

Here is an overview of the code below.

Message and Restart Button

  • Shows the current game message or the winning message if there is one.
  • Includes an image of a restart button. Clicking this image triggers handleRestartGame resetting the game.

Functions

1. handleRestartGame

Resets the game by clearing the cells array, setting the turn back to "marshmallow", and…

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Aneeqa Khan
Aneeqa Khan

Written by Aneeqa Khan

I’m a frontend web and mobile developer specialized in web/mobile designs and frontend frameworks. I usually work with React, React Native, Next and TypeScript.

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