Learning React: A Hands-On Guide to Building Web Applications Using React and Redux, Second edition

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Building Your First React App

Thanks to the previous chapter, you probably now know all about the backstory of React and how it helps even your most complex user interfaces sing. For all the awesomeness that React brings to the table, getting started with it (kind of like this sentence) is not the most straightforward. It has a steep learning curve filled with many small and big hurdles, as in Figure 2.1.

Figure 2.1 Hurdles come in a variety of sizes. Some are big. Some are small.

In this chapter, we start at the very beginning and get our hands dirty by building a simple React app. You’ll encounter some of these hurdles head-on, and some ...