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Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide
Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide: Build React applications faster with Create React App

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Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

Creating Our First Create React App Application

In Chapter 1, Introducing Create React App 2, we started off by taking a good, long look at Create React App and some of the options it provides. We even got started with create-react-app and started learning React at a very basic level. What we need to do now, however, is start diving into building an application that will serve as the framework for adding more functionality and testing the limits of Create React App.

To make things extra easy, we're going to build a simple to do list, since that is an application that nearly everyone can understand. It even has a great non-digital analog to it, making it a simple thing to reason about!

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Designing a web app
  • Building a simple project structure
  • Passing values to components via props
  • Passing functions to children components...

Creating our first major project

It's now time for us to move forward and start building a real project that will function as the baseline project for all of the other features that we want to explore in this book! To do that, though, let's take a brief moment to talk about how we want to design our application.

Designing our application

It's very difficult to build a project when you're not sure precisely what you're building in the first place, right? When we talk about how to design, build, and plan an application, we need to talk about the problem we're ultimately trying to solve in the first place. With that in mind, let's talk about the theoretical vision for our application.

First...

Summary

By now, you should have a strong grasp on React, how React functions, how to write good JSX and React code, and a bunch of the different gotchas and concerns you can run into. We covered all of this while still getting work done without ever having to go outside of Create React App. Now, we should have the following:

  • A working Create React App project
  • A more complicated application structure
  • An understanding of how to affect parent structures by passing variables and functions as properties
  • How to bind functions that may be called from inside event handlers

As we move on from this chapter, we'll dive more deeply into the other features of Create React App and the functionality it supports. It was important for us to have our application built and ready to go to give us room to iterate and explore the real depths of Create React App, so now that we're ready...

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Key benefits

  • Learn React by building applications with Create React App
  • Create interactive UIs exploring the latest feature of CRA 2.0
  • Build Progressive Web Applications for a more seamless web

Description

If you're a power user and you aren’t happy always reusing default configurations, from previous applications with each new application, then all you need is Create React App (CRA), a tool in the React ecosystem designed to help you create boilerplate code for building a web frontend. This book will help you use CRA to write React programs without significant configuration-related difficulties. With this quick start guide, you will integrate your applications with React to build efficient professional web services.You will learn to design UIs with the features of CRA and template your React applications. By the end of the book, you will be sufficiently skilled to be able to build faster and effective React apps using CRA.

Who is this book for?

The book is intended for the web developers who want to jump into building great frontend with React using easy templating solutions.

What you will learn

  • Become familiar with React by building applications with Create React App
  • Make your frontend development hassle free
  • Create interactive UIs exploring the latest features of CRA 2
  • Build modern, React projects with, SASS,and progressive web applications
  • Develop proxy backend servers and simulate interaction with a full backend
  • Keep your application fully tested and maintain confidence in your project

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Table of Contents

9 Chapters
Introducing Create React App 2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating Our First Create React App Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Create React App and Babel Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Keep Your App Healthy with Tests and Jest Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Applying Modern CSS to Create React App Projects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Simulate Your Backend with a Proxy API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Building Progressive Web Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting Your App Ready for Production Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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