Checking your development setup

In this section, we will go through the development workflow and write code step-by-step to ensure the environment is correctly set up to start developing and running MERN applications.

We will generate these project files in the following folder structure to run a simple setup project:

| mern-simplesetup/
  | -- client/
    | --- HelloWorld.js
    | --- main.js
  | -- server/
    | --- devBundle.js
    | --- server.js
  | -- .babelrc
  | -- nodemon.json
  | -- package.json
  | -- template.js
  | -- webpack.config.client.js
  | -- webpack.config.client.production.js
  | -- webpack.config.server.js

The code discussed in this section is available on GitHub in the repository at: github.com/shamahoque/mern-simplesetup. You can clone this code and run it as you go through the code explanations in the rest of this chapter. 

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