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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)

Understanding and building PWAs

PWAs are one of those features that sounds amazingly cool but it's surprisingly complicated to understand the when, why, and how of building them. Let's spend a little bit of time demystifying them and helping you understand why they are such a powerful (and appreciated) inclusion in our Create React App projects and how we can get started using them!

What is a PWA?

Let's talk a little bit about what a PWA is, because there is unfortunately a lot of misinformation and confusion about precisely what a PWA does!

Here's a short, maybe slightly unhelpful, version of what a PWA does; it's simply a website that does the following:

  • Only uses HTTPS
  • Adds a JSON manifest (a...