Start a React Project Truly from Scratch Using Webpack and Babel

Facebook did an excellent job building Create React App — a powerful CLI tool that allows React developers to generate new React projects with absolute ease. Create React App comes with a wide array of features out-of-the-box, including a pre-configured build setup.

Under the hood, it uses Babel and Webpack, but you don’t need to know anything about them.

- Official React Documentation

Create React App’s ability to concoct a single-page React application in seconds to minutes without the need for manual installation and configuration of Webpack and Babel is precisely what makes it a staple in so many React…