Hands-On Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React - Second Edition

Creating and running a React app

Now that we have Node.js and the code editor installed, we are ready to create our first React.js app. We are using Facebook's create-react-app command (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app) for this. Here are the steps you need to follow in order to make your first app:

1. Open PowerShell or the Command Prompt tool and type the following command:

npx create-react-app myapp

This command creates a React app named myapp. Npx is the npm package runner and, when you're using it, you don't have to install the package before running it:

2. Once the app has been created, move it into your app folder:

cd myapp ...