Preparing the development environment
Before we start coding, we'll need to get our development tools installed and configured. This involves installing some Node modules and writing the Webpack configuration file. We've already installed Node. Now, we just need to install the Webpack configuration file.
Installing and configuring Webpack
Install Webpack and the Webpack dev server. Here the Webpack dev server is installed globally so that the command is easily available from any command path.
npm install --save webpack npm install -g webpack-dev-server
Within our Webpack configuration we are going to use the following: the Babel JS transpiler for ES6 and JSX, the React hot-loader so we'll have to refresh our browser less often, and the Webpack dev ...
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