create-react-app hello-world

UPDATE: I came back to this later and went through every tutorial — finally discovering this one that worked (at least in February of 2018).


I love when things work like they say they will. I’ve been wanting to make a PWA (in an odd way similar to a PSA) so the best way is to just do it.

But as all beginnings go, this task seemed less simple going forward. I found this article but this one seems like it might get me there faster. So I went with the latter.

The version number for the router didn’t dice on my terminal side, so I went ahead and did this:

npm install --save react-router

Phew. And it cleared and let me see this:
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I kept moving forward and the article delivered without roadblocks.

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Emoji have really made the terminal window so much more fun!

But I made the mistake of not realizing that I had to make Firebase create a project (there was no CLI action there). That made me lose 10 minutes or so.

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After that, stuff started working again, buuuuuut no dice in the end.

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OMG so close! Got to go back and figure out what flag I didn’t get right. But my 30-minute happy hacking limit is up. I’ll come back to this later. —JM

PS1 Note to self: If I ever get to React Native, this Snack thing looks tasty via Expo — that looks yummy too.

PS2 Making a PWA with Java looks interesting.