A Simple App with TypeScript, React and Styled Components - Part 1: setting up the tools

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Webpack

The first step is to use create-react-app to generate a simple application as a starting point. create-react-app spares us the work of configuring several build tools, and makes our life easier. Among many others, it will automatically set up Webpack and Babel(configured to compile TypeScript), as well as web-vitals. All of this in a single command!

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React

React will be our framework to develop our app.

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Babel

The first step is to use create-react-app to generate a simple application as a starting point. create-react-app spares us the work of configuring several build tools, and makes our life easier. Among many others, it will automatically set up Webpack and Babel(configured to compile TypeScript), as well as web-vitals. All of this in a single command!

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