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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

9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Who this book is for

This book is designed for anyone with some JavaScript knowledge who is looking to take better advantage of the Create React App bootstrap tool to get started building their own amazing React projects. If you're looking to get better at JavaScript and building projects with best practices in mind, this book will also be for you! Even if you're a React veteran who has just never or rarely used Create React App to get started with their projects, this book will still give you plenty to learn from and work with!

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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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