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Choosing your project starter

Choosing your project starter

Hi, and welcome back. In this video, we will discuss build tools with react. Before we start, as we discussed in the previous lectures, browser understands only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. For running our react application, we need a build tool, which can build the files to be run in the browser as simple files such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. As our browser doesn't understand JSX, TypeScript, Component, Hooks, or any other React technology. First we are going to discuss about Beat which is the most popular build tool nowadays and almost everybody uses this with React. As I said, React is a next-generation build tool which is focused on speed. When React started, the build tool which was used was CRE, as known as Create React App. It was pretty slow as compared to Wheat. It uses native ES modules, that means the ECMAScript modules, which makes it faster. It also provides a faster hot module replacement. That means you don't have to wait once you make changes in your VS Code. If you…

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