React - Setting Up The Development Environment

1. Install Node https://nodejs.org/en/
2. [sudo] npm i -g create-react-app
3. Install an editor (ie VS Code)
4. Install extensions
   1. Simple React Snippets
   2. Prettier - Code formatter
      1. Preferences / settings / "editor.formatOnSave":true
   3. Color Theme (Ayu Mirage)

in order to create a react app

create-react-app MyAppName

this command installs Development Server, webpack, Babel etc

to run the application

npm start