Comment by Killed_Mufasa on 01/03/2025 at 12:27 UTC*

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View submission: React App Completely Unresponsive After Git Clone and npm Install

Thanks, that's helpful. Watched your vids, here are some thoughts:

You nest a <button in a <a, that's generally not recommended. But if you do, make sure to make the type=button. As type=submit is the default.
It looks like you're not using React devtools, you really should! It also has an element select thingy, you can check what is being rendered, with what props, etc.
In your example I didn't see any event handlers applied, can you try if on onClick event on a button shows up in the DOM?
Are any changes applied at all? The console.logs (make sure to put it in a useEffect with no dependencies = on mount) should really appear. Check with react dev tools which components are rendered.
Use inspect element or react dev tools to inspect the contents of #root. Check if there is some kind of overlay with full height/width. Try deleting some stuff, to see if that makes a difference.

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Comment by bycmlla at 01/03/2025 at 13:01 UTC

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Oh, thank you so much! I identified that there was a `z-index: -1` applied to my home, which I had no idea was causing all this trouble on my site. I'm now using React DevTools, which I wasn't using before because I was always using the Opera browser. But everything has been resolved. Thank you so much for your help!!!!