Interactive rating component [using ReactJS]

This is my first project that uses ReactJS. So there were a few confusions during the implementation of the project:

• I haven't used Vite to create a ReactJS project and I had some trouble deploying the project to github => I followed this website and this video . But I find it quite annoying to have to create a branch, Is this a good way to push Vite project to github?

• Is it a good idea for me to use 'useState' and pass them through props for the child component to change the parent component's state?