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Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

By : Brandon Richey
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Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

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.
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Simulating a backend server with the proxy API

We've been building up our application over time with Create React App, but we've kept it almost entirely a frontend-only application. That's all well and good, but the reality is that you will probably be building an application that has a server behind it! The good news is that creating a simulated backend in Create React App projects remains as simple as possible while still giving you a good feel for how things would translate into a real-world scenario or project!

Setting up the backend API

As mentioned, pretending there is a backend to our Create React App project requires very little effort and gets us back into development incredibly quickly. For us to take...

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