Checking your development setup

In this section, we will go through the development workflow and write code step by step to ensure that 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 https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-React-Projects-Second-Edition/tree/master/Chapter02/mern-simplesetup. You can clone this code and run it as you go through the code explanations in the...