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Progressive Web Apps with React
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Progressive Web Apps with React

by Scott Domes
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
302 pages
7h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing React

Let’s try it by running yarn add react@15.6.1 from within your project folder.

We're installing a specific version of React (15.6.1) to ensure compatibility with other dependencies, and to ensure that there are no unexpected problems as new versions are released.

Once the installation is complete, you should see React added to our package.json under dependencies. You'll also see that yarn generated a node_modules folder and a yarn.lock file.

The node_modules folder is where all our packages will live. If you open it up, you can see that there are several folders already. We've not only installed React, but everything that React depends on--dependencies on dependencies.

As you might imagine, the node_modules folder can get ...

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