In the previous chapter, you learned how to use create-react-app
. This is just the beginning of our React tooling journey. By using create-react-app
to bootstrap your application, you're installing many other tools used for development. These tools are part of the react-scripts
package. The focus of this chapter will be the development server that comes with react-scripts
where we'll cover:
- Starting the development server
- Automatic Webpack configuration
- Putting hot component reloading to use