Creating a project with Create React App

Create React App is a popular tool for creating React projects. It is based on webpack, so the knowledge from the last section will give you an understanding of how Create React App works. In this section, we will use Create React App to create a React and TypeScript project.

Using Create React App

Unlike the setup in the last section, Create React App generates a React and TypeScript project with all the common tools we will likely require, including CSS and unit testing support.

To use Create React App, open Visual Studio Code in a blank folder of your choice and run the following command:

npx create-react-app myapp --template typescript

npx allows npm packages to temporarily be installed and run. It is a common method of running project scaffolding tools such as Create React App.

create-react-app is the package for the Create React App tool that creates the project. We have passed it the app name, myapp. We have also specified...