Starting the development server

If you created a React application using the create-react-app tool in the previous chapter, then you have everything you need to launch a development server. No configuration is necessary! Let's start it up right now. First, make sure that you're in the project directory:

cd my-react-app/

Now you can start the development server:

npm start

This will start the development server using the start script from the react-scripts package. You should see the console output that looks like this:

Compiled successfully!You can now view my-react-app in the browser.Local:            http://localhost:3000/On Your Network:  http://192.168.86.101:3000/Note that the development build is not optimized.To create a production build, use npm run build.

You'll notice that in addition to printing this output in the console, this script will launch a new browser tab with http://localhost:3000/ as the address. The page that's displayed looks like this:

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