From the course: AWS and React: Creating Full-Stack Apps (2019)

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React app concepts

React app concepts - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS and React: Creating Full-Stack Apps (2019)

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React app concepts

- [Instructor] The set up for creating a React app can be complex. There's various files, directories, and dependencies you need right off the bat. Fortunately, there's some great tools, like NPM that do this grunt work for you and get you started quickly and easily and this is the route we're going to take. So first you need to install Node.js, which includes NPM. We got to npmjs.com/get-npm. NPM stands for Node Package Management, but sometimes the website has a little fun and puts different definitions up at the top. We're going to download the Node.js installer that includes NPM. So we click here and it goes to the download page and we'll use the recommended version. It's going to download the package for us and then we can just double click it to install. We go through the all the default settings and agree to the agreement and then we'll install. It also includes NPX. NPX is what we'll use to manage our…

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