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Setting Up the Environment and Tools – Frontend

This chapter describes the development environment and tools that are needed for React so that you can start frontend development. In this chapter, we will create a simple starter React app by using the Vite frontend tooling.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Installing Node.js
  • Installing Visual Studio Code
  • Creating and running a React app
  • Debugging a React app

Technical requirements

The following GitHub link will be required: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Full-Stack-Development-with-Spring-Boot-3-and-React-Fourth-Edition/tree/main/Chapter07.

Installing Node.js

Node.js is an open-source, JavaScript-based, server-side environment. It is available for multiple operating ...

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