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Using Create React App

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What is Create React App?

1:42 with Guil Hernandez

Create React App is a tool built by developers at Facebook to help you build React applications. It saves you from time-consuming setup and configuration. You simply run one command and create react app sets up the tools you need to start your React project.

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    [MUSIC] 0:00
    [SOUND] Setting up the front end tools to develop a React application can be 0:04
    intimidating and time consuming. 0:07
    There are a lot of moving parts. 0:09
    For example, setting up Babel to transfile JSS into browser-ready code. 0:12
    And configuring webpack to bundle your project assets. 0:16
    Not to mention creating your project structure and production build. 0:20
    Fortunately, there's now an easier way. 0:23
    I'm Guil, a front end developer and teacher here at Tree House. 0:25
    In this workshop, I'll teach you how to quickly get your React projects up and 0:28
    running using Create React App. 0:32
    Create-react-app is a tool 0:34
    built by developers at Facebook to help you build React applications. 0:37
    It saves you from time-consuming setup and configuration. 0:41
    You simply run one command and 0:44
    create-react-app sets up the tools you need to start your React project. 0:47
    In addition, once you've created your project, 0:51
    Create React App provides other amazing features like scripts. 0:54
    To develop your project locally and deploy to production. 0:58
    Projects are built as progressive web apps by default. 1:02
    So this means that in production your apps will be faster and 1:05
    more reliable than traditional web apps and provide engaging mobile experiences. 1:08
    Create React App also ships with jest, a JavaScript testing framework for 1:13
    testing React components. 1:18
    And it provides helpful run time errors right in the browser and more. 1:20
    This workshop assumes that you know the basics of React and 1:24
    have node and npm installed in your computer. 1:28
    So be sure to check the teacher's notes for links to Tree House courses and 1:31
    resources that will get you up to speed on those topics. 1:34
    In the next video, we'll install Create React App and create a new project. 1:38

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