React Shell Commands

npx and create-react-app

npm install -g npm

This will make sure you have the newest version of Node Package Manager. It will also give us access to npx. with npx, we can provide a node package name as an argument and use remote node packages as though they were installed with npm.

npx create-react-app <your_app_name>

Babel

Babel enables us to use syntax that browsers won't natively recognise by pre-compiling it into syntax that browsers do natively recognise. When used with React, this can (and in our case will) include, but not be limited to, digesting JSX.