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Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

By : Brandon Richey
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Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

By: Brandon Richey

Overview of this book

If you're a power user and you aren’t happy always reusing default configurations, from previous applications with each new application, then all you need is Create React App (CRA), a tool in the React ecosystem designed to help you create boilerplate code for building a web frontend. This book will help you use CRA to write React programs without significant configuration-related difficulties. With this quick start guide, you will integrate your applications with React to build efficient professional web services.You will learn to design UIs with the features of CRA and template your React applications. By the end of the book, you will be sufficiently skilled to be able to build faster and effective React apps using CRA.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Creating our first major project

It's now time for us to move forward and start building a real project that will function as the baseline project for all of the other features that we want to explore in this book! To do that, though, let's take a brief moment to talk about how we want to design our application.

Designing our application

It's very difficult to build a project when you're not sure precisely what you're building in the first place, right? When we talk about how to design, build, and plan an application, we need to talk about the problem we're ultimately trying to solve in the first place. With that in mind, let's talk about the theoretical vision for our application.

First...