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Running a local development server of React

Running a local development server of React

we left off saying, well, we access that DOM at the root. We use React strict mode in order to enforce additional error handling functionality for warnings or component issues. And then most importantly, we can't, of course, forget the application, which we're rendering. So what is this app with such a buildup, such a buildup? Well, let's take a look at this source folder and the index.js we've already looked at. Now we also have this index.css file that we're importing. So CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It's what styles an application in terms of adding colors, where we want the positions of our elements to be with rows and columns and moving things around. Basically how our elements and how our application is visualized. So CSS works basically by accessing different selectors, such as the body, or you can create your own custom class names and then applying styles to them, and that's all it is. So this is the body of the page. Well, within the body, we're setting up a little…

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