React Setup

• Install Node
• React dev tools for Chrome (optional)

Setting up a react project

npm init -y # 
npm install react react-dom
npm install @babel/core babel-loader @babel/preset-env @babel/preset-react
npm install webpack webpack-cli webpack-dev-server

code . # will open visual studio code in that directory
Create a 'src' folder in the project folder

mkdir src

create an 'index.html and index.js' in the src folder

initialize babel and webpack files

1. on the root dir create a file

.bablerc

npx create-react-app my-app # this does not install it globally
cd my-app
npm start

Check if npm is installed

npm --version