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Create a project with Create React App

Create a project with Create React App - React.js Tutorial

From the course: Building Modern Projects with React

Create a project with Create React App

- [Instructor] All right, so previously we saw the basics of setting up a React app from scratch, but there were a few problems with that, right? Really the main problem with this was that it was a little bit difficult to set up as well as a little bit difficult to make changes to, right? If we wanted to make changes to the App component, for example, or really any part of our React JavaScript files, we had to actually rebuild the entire application before we would see those changes. And there's a lot of other things as well that can cause problems once you try and build complex React applications with this setup. So really this was just an exercise to show you what React apps are actually like behind the scenes. They're actually fairly straightforward, if a little bit cumbersome to work with. So the next thing that we're going to take a look at is a variety of tools that will make this process easier for us. So the first tool that we're going to take a look at is something called…

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