1. create-react-app #

Created Monday 20 July 2020

Why #

To avoid manual setup. The script:

1. Downloads and installs React and core dependencies.
2. Sets up Babel (the transpiler).
3. Creates a basic skeleton of the app to start development with.

How #

• Install create-react-app globally from npm.

What #

Steps to create app

• Run create-react-app app_name or run it inside a folder with . as argument.
• Dependencies are downloaded, package.json is set and the project is a git folder.
• Run npm start from the project root to start app.