# Can you help me to get my navbar component to work in my react project?

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/can-you-help-me-to-get-my-navbar-component-to-work-in-my-react-project/247615>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [December 25, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/can-you-help-me-to-get-my-navbar-component-to-work-in-my-react-project/247615 "2018-12-25T21:21:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![alkapwn3d](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/alkapwn3d/32/92787_2.png) [@alkapwn3d](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/alkapwn3d)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/can-you-help-me-to-get-my-navbar-component-to-work-in-my-react-project/247615/1 "2018-12-25T21:21:14Z")

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It’s not importing the component properly.

**Error**  
Uncaught ReferenceError: React is not defined  
at Navbar (navbar.jsx:3)

[GitHub Project](https://github.com/alkapwn3d/resume-react)

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**Author:** ![Ronnehag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ronnehag/32/106719_2.png) [@Ronnehag](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/Ronnehag)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 9:23pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/can-you-help-me-to-get-my-navbar-component-to-work-in-my-react-project/247615/2 "2018-12-25T21:23:29Z")

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You need to import React from ‘react’ in your Navbar component.

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**Author:** ![warpfox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/warpfox/32/106507_2.png) [@warpfox](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/warpfox)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 9:25pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/can-you-help-me-to-get-my-navbar-component-to-work-in-my-react-project/247615/3 "2018-12-25T21:25:44Z")

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@Ronnehag is correct. Your navbar.jsx is built like a React component but that file is not importing React.

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/can-you-help-me-to-get-my-navbar-component-to-work-in-my-react-project/247615/4 "2021-01-17T20:07:21Z")

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Closed on January 17, 2021, 8:07pm UTC