What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing Create React App 2, gets you started with Create React App and helps you to understand the prerequisites and commands you'll need in order to get moving!

Chapter 2, Creating Our First Create React App Application, establishes the foundations of the project that we'll use for the remainder of the book. This will cover the basics of setting up a Create React App project.

Chapter 3, Create React App and Babel, explains the latest changes that Babel supports and how to write superior modern JavaScript using the latest features.

Chapter 4, Keep Your App Healthy with Tests and Jest, delves into how to maintain a healthy software development life cycle by covering testing in detail.

Chapter 5, Applying Modern CSS to Create React App Projects, is where we'll learn modern techniques to make our projects look beautiful and keep our style sheets organized in a sane way.

Chapter 6, Simulate Your Backend with a Proxy API, experiments with building a pseudo backend to our project and introduces techniques for pulling live data from servers using Fetch.

Chapter 7, Building Progressive Web Applications, experiments with using service workers built into Create React App 2 in order to build a progressive web application.

Chapter 8, Getting Your App Ready for Production, is where we'll finish putting the application together, making it production ready, and creating a build that can be deployed to a production environment.