Main folders and root level configuration files

The folders are detailed in the following table:

Folder	Contents
config	Configuration files; you will need to modify a few of these later.
dist	Distributable files; for example TypeScript files compiled into a bundled JavaScript file.
lib	Compile time files, which you don't modify yourself, but instead modify in the src folder.
node_modules	This contains all the dependencies, literally tens of thousands of files and thousands of folders. It looks ugly and downloading all these files will take a while when you are running the Yeoman SharePoint generator, but they are required for the SharePoint Framework development environment to work.
src	An import folder with the source files that you will modify when building real-life web parts.
temp	Temporary files used by the SharePoint Framework development environment.
typings	TypeScript typing information. No need to modify these.

 

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