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React 16 Tooling
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React 16 Tooling

by Adam Boduch, Christopher Pitt
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
298 pages
6h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Specifying a project name

The only configuration value that you need to supply to Create React App so that it can bootstrap your project is the name. This is specified as an argument to the create-react-app command:

$ create-react-app my-react-app

This will create a my-react-app directory in your current directory, if it doesn't already exist. If it already exists, the directory will be used. This is where you'll find everything to do with your application. Once the directory is created, it installs package dependencies and creates project directories and files. Here's a shortened version of what the create-react-app command output might look like:

Creating a new React app in 02/my-react-app.
    
Installing packages. This might take a couple ...
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