Creating your first React application

Introduction

It's time to put it into practice and create dynamic front-end applications. Today's blog post will focus solely on creating a React application.

Tutorial steps

This tutorial will go over the important steps for completing this project. You may encounter some problems along the way. That's why, at the end of this tutorial, I'll fix some common bugs that I also encountered during my experiments.

Using a framework

Before we begin, it is important to understand that I will only be installing a blank React project. And when I say blank, I mean a project without a framework. It is possible to use frameworks such as Next.js to create React applications that will solve problems that are quite complex to fix when your application grows a little larger. However, in this tutorial, we will work with a lightweight project to get a taste of the important elements of React. This learning path is perfect for learning the basics step by step.

Tutorial

1. Prerequisites

To create a React project, you must first ensure that your machine has npm

To check if this is the case, open a command terminal and enter the following command:

1npm -v

If you get a version number (any number), then npm is installed

110.5.0

Otherwise, I