Build a Frontend Web Framework (From Scratch)

appendix Setting up the project

Before you write any code, you need to have an NPM project set up. In this appendix, I’ll help you create and configure a project to write the code for your framework.

I understand that you might not configure an NPM project from scratch with a bundler, a linter, and a test library, as most frameworks come with a command-line interface (CLI) tool (such as create-react-app or angular-cli) that creates the scaffolding and generates the boilerplate code structure. So I’ll give you two options to create your project:

• Use the CLI tool I created for this book. With a single command, you can create a project and can start writing your code right away.
• Configure the project from scratch. This option is more laborious, ...