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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)

Introducing SASS to our project

That's not all that the Create React App added support for as part of Create React App 2! By very popular demand, the Create React App team added in support for SASS pre-processing as well! Often, you'd pretty much be guaranteed that you'd need to eject your project as soon as you wanted to start working with any SASS in your project.

What is SASS?

Let's talk a little bit about what SASS actually is, since it's a pretty important thing to cover. Otherwise, you'd have no connection to why this is worth the effort (even though, to be fair, it is very little effort to integrate into your Create React App projects). SASS is essentially CSS with extended feature support...