In my previous article, I explained briefly why to choose React and Feathers to create a Web-App. Now in this article, we will set up a basic Web-App with React Client and Feathers Server configured with a REST API and authentication.
First, we will create/setup the React App/Client and then the Feathers App/Server.
So basically, there are many ways to set up a React App, but we will use the most common and straightforward way — using create-react-app.
Prerequisites: You need to have Node and npm (alternatively you can also use yarn instead of npm) installed globally in your system.
This article and its following parts presume that you are familiar with JavaScript and have a basic idea of Feathers and/or Express & React. The articles only provide a generalized idea of the process of creating a Web-App with Feathers & React and do not include any in-depth explanations of any relevant concepts. The purpose of the series of these articles is to give an overview of the bare-minimum essentials of a Web-App and how to create one with said essentials using Feathers & React. …
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