Using Create React App to Create Our Project

It's finally time to roll up our sleeves and get to work. You should have a very thorough understanding of Create React App's offerings, but now it's time to actually put that understanding to use.

Again, remember that Create React App creates a project for us, and that includes a lot of extras that act as the main scaffolding for our project. Much like a painter's scaffold, from far away it can seem like a lot of things have been added just to begin working, but the beauty is that it is all work that we would have to do anyway. This allows us to bypass that step and go right into getting some work done!

We will create our first project, which we will call hello-react, by running the following command:

$ npx create-react-app hello-react

The output will be as follows(truncated output):

npx: installed 91 in 23.129s
Creating a new React app in /home/brandon/code/hello-react.
Installing packages. This might...