Here we are discussing creating react app using npx create-react-app. npx comes with npm 5.2 and higher.

Prerequisite: You need to install Node >= 8.10 on your machine.

Creating an app using npx command

npx create-react-app my-app

create-react-app set up the main structure of the application.

Important: If you previously installed create-react-app using npm, uninstall before using npx. Because npx always refer the latest version of libraries.

Open the project folder you can see the file structure as follows.

 ♦. node_modules – This directory contains dependencies and sub-dependencies of packages used by the application.

♦. package.json – file outlines all the settings for the React application.

♦.public – This directory contains assets that will be served directly

♦.src– This directory contains all user defined react components and component-related files and views.

To start the project run command,

npm start

project run on http://localhost:3000/

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