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Exploring a React Project Directory Structure

Explore the structure of a React project created with create-react-app. Understand the role of essential files and folders such as src, public, README.md, and package.json. This lesson helps you navigate your project's setup and prepares you to manage and develop your React application efficiently.

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

📜 Note: You can find the steps for the local setup in the Appendix chapter. But with Educative, you can see the live execution of the code using Educative SPA widget.

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Project structure

The react App project structure on Educative SPA is as follows:

--public/
--src/
----App.css
----App.js
----App.test.js
----index.css
----index.js
----logo.svg
--.gitignore
--package-lock.json
--package.json
--README.md
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