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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)

Adding CSS frameworks

A very common use case that you'll run into as part of working on a frontend project is integrating some sort of third-party CSS framework. This is something I've had to do on nearly every frontend development project I've ever touched, and there's pretty good odds that you'll need to run through this same process!

We'll stick to one of the most common ones, since it will give you a good introduction to using frameworks in general, so we'll start off by integrating bootstrap into our project! It won't take much for our project to go from sort of ugly to actually kind of decent! As with most other things we've run into as part of our development process with Create React App, this is equally simple for us to implement! We'll start off by adding both bootstrap to our project and reactstrap, which is a pre-made...