Getting Started: Installing React

For installation of React application you have to open your command prompt by typing cmd after press windows icon from keyboard, if you are on windows. If you are on mac , then  Click the Launchpad icon in the Dock, type Terminal in the search field, then click Terminal.

npx create-react-app app-name

This command creates a template of a React application with the name of app-name of your current path.

If you have created folder already. then just navigate to inside that folder and run below given command on your terminal.

npx create-react-app .

This command creates a template of a React application within your created folder here .(dot) means current folder.

Once your command executed successfully. You will get folder structure like below given image.

    

Note :- npx is not a typo. It is a package runner command included within npm

Now, you need to navigate into your created react application folder. and run below given command.

npm start

If the above command executed successfully, Your application will run on localhost:3000 on your default browser. and its shown as given below output.

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