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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)

Summary

By now, you should have a strong grasp on React, how React functions, how to write good JSX and React code, and a bunch of the different gotchas and concerns you can run into. We covered all of this while still getting work done without ever having to go outside of Create React App. Now, we should have the following:

  • A working Create React App project
  • A more complicated application structure
  • An understanding of how to affect parent structures by passing variables and functions as properties
  • How to bind functions that may be called from inside event handlers

As we move on from this chapter, we'll dive more deeply into the other features of Create React App and the functionality it supports. It was important for us to have our application built and ready to go to give us room to iterate and explore the real depths of Create React App, so now that we're ready...