Learning React

Setting up the Dev environment

npm i -g create-react-app@1.5.2

Download and install visual studio code (set the Oceanic Next theme or Ayu Mirage)

Add the extensions:

• Simple React Snippets (developed by Burke Holland)
• Prettier – Code formatter (developed by Esben Petersen) – File > Preferences > Settings > set this to format on save

Create your first React application

npx create-react-app <name of the app>

then from within the console navigate to the application’s folder

cd <name of the app>

and run the following command as it will ask you a series of questions. The provided answers will be used to create the package.json file.

npm init

npm start