Zero-Configuration Setup

This section will show you how to set up your application using create-react-app.

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In the Road to learn React, we will be using create-react-app to bootstrap your application. It’s an opinionated yet zero-configuration starter kit for React introduced by Facebook in 2016, recommended for beginners by 96% of React users. In create-react-app the tooling and configuration evolve in the background, while the focus is on the application implementation.

To get started, install the package to your global node packages, which keeps it available on the command line to bootstrap new React applications:

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