React TutorialLesson 3Free preview

React Get Started

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Summary

To start writing React, you need Node.js and npm as its package manager. The easiest way is to create a new project with a tool like Vite, and then run the development server through npm run dev. Another alternative, React can be tried directly via a CDN without a build process for short experiments.

Key points

Install Node.js to make npm available to manage dependencies
Create a new project with npm create vite@latest and then select the React template
Npm install downloads dependencies to the node_modules folder
The development server provides hot reload when the file is changed

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