So I Chose React E3 – Setting up our dev env – Enhanced

**Nov 2021 update – dependency updates, minor updates required due to dependency updates, split prettier out from eslint, hot reloading is no built in and defaulted on with web-dev-server*** Last time we got all setup with React, Babel and Webpack.  Our environment was all set to start coding react components with JSX and ES2015+.  However,

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So I Chose React E2 – Setting up our dev env

***Nov 2021 update – dependency updates, minor updates required due to dependency updates*** The Facebook team has made many improvements to getting up and running quickly with React using “create-react-app”.  There is also a lot going on under the hood of the app that gets created using “create-react-app”.  So, even though that is the quickest

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What Does It Mean To Choose React? Episode 1

Jumping head first into React is more than I ever realized. It’s just a JavaScript (JS) library. A small one at that, especially compared to it’s competitor, Angular. React is less than 200k, Angular over 500k, both minified sizes. Therefore it must be simple…not exactly…Point being there is far more to learn than a small library even if you are an

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