Build a half-star rating component in React from scratch

The blog post provides a detailed guide on creating a star rating component using React, with a focus on implementing a half-star or precision-based rating system. It emphasizes the complexity involved in creating a precision-based component compared to a simple full-star system, and suggests using CSS properties like absolute positioning and overflow to achieve the desired visual effect. The post walks through setting up a React project with tools like Node.js, MUI, and Vite, and explains the logic required for handling hover and click events to manipulate star ratings accurately. It also discusses calculating the precise value of a star rating using DOM APIs such as clientX and getBoundingClientRect, as well as mathematical formulas to determine the nearest star precision. The guide concludes by suggesting that this approach is not limited to star icons and can be adapted for other icon sets, encouraging further exploration and improvement of the code.