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[SOUND] Setting up the front end tools to develop a React application can be

intimidating and time consuming.

There are a lot of moving parts.

For example, setting up Babel to transfile JSS into browser-ready code.

And configuring webpack to bundle your project assets.

Not to mention creating your project structure and production build.

Fortunately, there's now an easier way.

I'm Guil, a front end developer and teacher here at Tree House.

In this workshop, I'll teach you how to quickly get your React projects up and

running using Create React App.

Create-react-app is a tool

built by developers at Facebook to help you build React applications.

It saves you from time-consuming setup and configuration.

You simply run one command and

create-react-app sets up the tools you need to start your React project.

In addition, once you've created your project,

Create React App provides other amazing features like scripts.

To develop your project locally and deploy to production.

Projects are built as progressive web apps by default.

So this means that in production your apps will be faster and

more reliable than traditional web apps and provide engaging mobile experiences.

Create React App also ships with jest, a JavaScript testing framework for

testing React components.

And it provides helpful run time errors right in the browser and more.

This workshop assumes that you know the basics of React and

have node and npm installed in your computer.

So be sure to check the teacher's notes for links to Tree House courses and

resources that will get you up to speed on those topics.

In the next video, we'll install Create React App and create a new project.