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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)

Building Progressive Web Applications

The beauty of building a modern web application is being able to take advantage of functionalities such as a Progressive Web App (PWA)! But they can be a little complicated to work with. As always, the Create React App project makes a lot of this easier for us, but this time carries some significant caveats that we'll need to think about.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Examining PWAs and what they add
  • Learning how to configure our Create React App project into a custom PWA
  • Modifying and tuning the manifest file
  • Exploring service workers, their life cycle, and how to use them with Create React App
  • Exploring the caveats of using Create React App to build a PWA