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Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789952766

Pages 188 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Brandon Richey

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Create React App 2

2. Creating Our First Create React App Application

3. Create React App and Babel

4. Keep Your App Healthy with Tests and Jest

5. Applying Modern CSS to Create React App Projects

6. Simulate Your Backend with a Proxy API

7. Building Progressive Web Applications

8. Getting Your App Ready for Production

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Understanding and building PWAs

PWAs are one of those features that sounds amazingly cool but it's surprisingly complicated to understand the when, why, and how of building them. Let's spend a little bit of time demystifying them and helping you understand why they are such a powerful (and appreciated) inclusion in our Create React App projects and how we can get started using them!

What is a PWA?

Let's talk a little bit about what a PWA is, because there is unfortunately a lot of misinformation and confusion about precisely what a PWA does!

Here's a short, maybe slightly unhelpful, version of what a PWA does; it's simply a website that does the following:

Only uses HTTPS
Adds a JSON manifest (a...

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Authors (1)

Brandon Richey

Brandon Richey is a software engineer and a React enthusiast who has written several popular React tutorials. He has been making professional and hobby programming projects spanning healthcare, personal sites, recruiting, and game development for nearly 20 years! Brandon is the author of the Packt book 'Create React App 2 Quick Start Guide'.

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