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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)

Applying Modern CSS to Create React App Projects

As we've been working on our project, we've been focusing very heavily on the functionality, but overall we have been perhaps slightly less focused on how everything actually looks! While this is fine for establishing functionality and making everything flow nicely at the start of the project, any designers working on the project will be ready to scream at this point!

Let's appease our design team, whether it's an actual team or just ourselves, by spending a little bit of time cleaning up the visual appeal of our project! In relation to our current design, while it's not necessarily hideous, it certainly leaves a lot to be desired!

So, how do we improve our application's design in a safe and sound way? Well, previously with Create React App, you actually didn't have a lot of options to be able...