April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
6h 34m
English
If you created a React application using the create-react-app tool in the previous chapter, then you have everything you need to launch a development server. No configuration is necessary! Let's start it up right now. First, make sure that you're in the project directory:
cd my-react-app/
Now you can start the development server:
npm start
This will start the development server using the start script from the react-scripts package. You should see the console output that looks like this:
Compiled successfully!
You can now view my-react-app in the browser.
Local: http://localhost:3000/
On Your Network: http://192.168.86.101:3000/
Note that the development build is not optimized.
To create a production build, ...