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D. B. Duldulao, R. J. L. CabagnotPractical Enterprise Reacthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6975-6_2

2. Getting Started with the Node Package Manager

Devlin Basilan Duldulao1   and Ruby Jane Leyva Cabagnot1
(1)
Oslo, Norway
 

Before we can get React up and running, we need an installer to download and manage our JavaScript software packages. One of the most popular package managers is the Node Package Manager (NPM). Another one is Yarn, a newer package manager that supposedly drew a lot of inspiration from NPM. For our project, we opted to use NPM instead of Yarn. You can use Yarn if you prefer.

Our project will be using NPM, so this chapter will go through ...

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