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Installing React on an existing site

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Installing React on an existing site

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into the React water, and get React installed on our little project here. This is an existing website for H+ Sport. And this is the shop page. We're specifically going to be looking at a product page for these sneakers. As you can see there's nothing here so far. This is something we're going to be building up as we go. I'm going to switch over to the HTML files so you can see what our script tags look like. So here I am in Visual Studio Code. And as I said, this is an existing website. This is a static copy of a WordPress website, in fact. So there's a whole ton of HTML in this file. We're going to skip to the parts that are really important for us, as we're integrating React into this page. So first I'm going to use the go to line command, which is Control + G in Visual Studio Code by default. I'm going to go to a line 114. About halfway down the page. Something we're going to need when we're inserting our components into the page is a place for React to put them. So we have an ID…

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