Making your store unique

Introduction

In order to introduce developers to how to build custom apps in VTEX IO, this course was launched. It goes through all the necessary steps to have a custom block in a theme that uses React, Typescript, and GraphQL.

About this course

This course will guide you through learning how to develop a custom app with VTEX IO. At the end of it, you will have a fully functional app, which is a countdown block for your store.

There are some prerequisities for you to have an amazing experience when doing this tutorial, which are:

• Knowledge on React and how to use hooks
• Basic concepts on GraphQL
• Understand how to develop using Typescript

If you are not familiar with any of those tools, we encourage you to take a look in some documentation:

• React.js
• React Hook API
• Typescript documentation

In order for you to start the course, you can use the template repository that we provide will all the initial files that you need to have so you can get started. You will find the repository in this link.

If you do not quite understand how to use a template repository, you can check this article.