A Super Minimalist React App With 2 Routes

I’ve worked with stuff like VueJS, NuxtJS and Angular, but not React, which I am still learning as a beginner. This series of articles aims to document my React-learning journey in a coherent step-by-step manner, and aims to be the documentation that I wished I had when I was still figuring out how stuff works in React.

Some Prerequisites

• nodejs and npm need to be installed
• Installing react

npm i react

For those that didn’t know, i here is short for install, so we are basically telling npm to install react for us.

Creating A New React App

At first, I followed the official documentation from this link:

Create a New React App - React

The command I used to create my React application (from the docs above):

npx create-react-app test1

This worked for a couple of React apps until I accidentally did something to my nodejs/npm installation. This npx command kept throwing errors to me…