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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 other libraries

As we mentioned previously, we'll be adding a few more libraries. If you're not interested in swapping either of these libraries, you can safely skip this section, but there are a few items to cover that may be representative of scenarios that you'll run into while working on JavaScript in a team environment. For example, Redux was, at one point, considered important (if not essential) for building a React project of any significant complexity. Recently, that mentality has ebbed a bit, and generally speaking, people will only opt for using libraries like Redux when it is more necessary and state management is a harder part of their applications. Regardless, we should have experience in adding it to our applications, so that we will be ready to contribute, should we ever be working on a project that is using it as well. There are a lot of other...