How to Build a Food Delivery App Clone UI Using React

How to Build a Food Delivery App Clone UI Using React

A food delivery app clone is one of the most practical React projects you can build. It touches routing, data fetching, state, lists, and search. Here is how to approach it.

Plan the Screens

You need at least a home page with a restaurant grid, a restaurant detail page with a menu, a cart, and maybe a search experience. Defining the screens first keeps the build focused.

Set Up Routing

Use React Router to navigate between the home page and restaurant detail pages. Dynamic routes with the restaurant id let you fetch the right menu for each restaurant.

Fetch and Render the List

On the home page, fetch the restaurant listing from the Swiggy Dummy Data API, handle loading and errors, and render the cards with proper keys.

Add Search and Filter

Add a search box that filters the restaurant list by name or cuisine. Compute the filtered list during render from the full list and the query, rather than storing it in state.

Build the Menu Page

On the restaurant detail route, fetch the menu endpoint using the id from the route parameter, and render the menu categories and items.

Build the Cart

Lift cart state to a common parent so the cart summary and the add-to-cart buttons on menu items can both access it. Use callbacks to update the cart from child components.

Polish the UI

Use a styling approach like Tailwind to make the UI responsive and clean. Add loading skeletons, error states, and empty states so the app feels real.

The Takeaway

A food delivery clone combines routing, data fetching, state, lists, and search into one project. Build it screen by screen, and you will practice most of what real frontend development involves.