July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
10h 6m
English
Before we can begin writing our code, we need to install React. While it is possible to create the infrastructure we need for React manually, most people use the create-react-app command to create a React application. We aren't going to do this any differently, so we are also going to use the create-react-app command. React does not use TypeScript by default so we are going to add a little bit extra to the command we use to create our application to give us all the TypeScript capacity that we need. We use create-react-app, giving it the name of our application and an extra scripts-version parameter that hooks in TypeScript for us:
npx create-react-app chapter03 --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts
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