Displaying a list of items

Lists are everywhere: a list of orders in the user's history, a list of available items in a store, a list of songs to play. Nearly any application will need to display some kind of information in a list.

For this recipe, we're going to display several items in a list component. We're going to define a JSON file with some data, then we're going to load this file using a simple require to finally render each item with a nice but simple layout.

Getting ready

Let's start by creating an empty app. We'll name this application list-items. We're going to need an icon to display on each item. The easiest way to get images is to download them from this recipe's repository...