Setup React

This lab requires React and create-react-app to build the app.

What is React?

React is a UI JavaScript library by Facebook for building efficient user interfaces and Single Page Applications. With React, you can build reusable frontend UI components in your app.

Install create-react-app

Facebook has a command line tool, create-react-app that can scaffold a progressive web app out of the box in less than a minute. Let's install the create-react-app tool globally using npm:

npm install -g create-react-app

This will install the create-react-app command line tool, which will make it easy to initialize your app with React.

Provision your app

Run the create-react-app command via the command line.

create-react-app miniflix

Navigate to the miniflix directory via the command line.

cd miniflix