Setting Up the Environment and Tools - Frontend

This chapter describes the development environment and tools that are needed for React, and is required so that you can start frontend development. In this chapter, we will create a simple starter React app by using the Create React App starter kit that's developed by Facebook.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Installing Node.js
• Installing VS Code
• VS Code extensions
• Creating a React.js app using create-react-app
• Running a React app