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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)

The why and when of testing

You might be wondering why we've started tackling our tests so late in our application. Generally speaking, when you're just starting out in your projects, you might wait a little bit to see how your application shakes out before you start verifying its behavior with tests. That being said, we're now also at a really good point to start shoring up our project and make it something that we can deploy to production with confidence!

The history of testing React

Again, it's great to understand the history of the toolset to understand why certain features or libraries are being used. When people were just getting started with React, ideas and standards around testing were absolutely...