React: Building Modern Web Applications

Creating package.json

Have you ever heard of DRY before? It stands for Don't Repeat Yourself, and it promotes one of the core principles in software development—code reuse. The best code is the one that you don't need to write. In fact, one of our goals in this project is to write as little code as possible. You might not realize this just yet, but React helps us achieve this goal. Not only does it save us time, but if we also decide to maintain and improve our project in future, it will save us even more time in the long run.

When it comes to not writing code, we can apply the following strategies:

• Writing our code in a declarative programming style
• Reusing the code written by someone else

In this project, we'll be using both these techniques. The ...