How to install React

Guide for react installation can be found at : https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/installation.html

Steps involved
1) Create a project

npm init

2 ) Install React and React DOM

npm install --save react react-dom

3) Install Babel ( Enabling Es6 and JSX )

npm install --save-dev babel-cli babel-preset-react

 4) Babel preset 2015

npm install --save-dev babel-cli babel-preset-es2015

Enable babel

{
  "name": "reactprojects",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "babel":{
    //my babel config file
  },

Install web pack

npm install --save-dev webpack

Create a React app.
Note:

• We can download or clone the react-app using the following URL

           https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app

• Move to this folder in command prompt

c:\Development\ReactProjects\my-app\src>

• Install all the necessary packages . Steps 1 to 4 described above

npm install -g create-react-app

create-react-app my-app
cd my-app/
npm start

Output