React Starter App

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React is a flexible and lightweight library that improves the performance of an app. React can be installed without the user's configuration. The package manager can either be NPM or yarn, and the tool or package is create-react-app. We will install via npm instead.

Visual Studio Code will be used instead. To use the NPM package to create a React app, install Node.

Follow the steps below to install React:
1) Open Visual Studio Code in any terminal (root directory).

code .

2) Open Visual Studio terminal, Ctrl + Shift + '
3) Navigate to the Desktop directory.

cd Desktop

4) Create a React app (my-app). For Windows.

npx create-react-app my-app 

5) Create a React app (my-app). For Mac and Linux.

sudo npx create-react-app my-app

6) Change directory to project folder, my-app.

cd my-app

7) Start a development server.

npm start

React Starter App Demo

The development server runs the app at port 3000 on your local machine by default, http://localhost:3000/. If the port is different, it means another server is already running at port 3000.

If interested to install React online on Replit follow the steps below:

Steps:

• Click the Shell navigation tab.
• Follow steps 4 - 7.

The installation process is documented on the Facebook Github repository.

After installation of React, the most relevant folders in the my-app project are structured as shown below:

my-app
├── README.md
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── .gitignore
├── public
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── index.html
│   └── manifest.json
└── src
    ├── App.css
    ├── App.js
    ├── App.test.js
    ├── index.css
    ├── index.js
    ├── logo.svg
    └── serviceWorker.js
    └── setupTests.js

Happy Coding!!!

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