React bare bones setup
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When you start with React, it is common that you just start a project with the CRA tool. While this quickly makes a project, it also does lots of magic in the background to make it work. For learning purposes, it can be better to write your own configuration to build a react application.
Very simple setup
It is possible to use the ReactJS framework without using any transpilers. For this, make a new directory for our project and make a index.html file containing the following content:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My React app</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="react.development.js"></script>
<script type="module" src="/main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>