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Karthik Kalyanaraman
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Mar 28, 2023 â‹… 13 min read

Getting started with Create React App

Karthik Kalyanaraman Software engineer. Curious about technology and the economics of the tech industry. Follow me on Twitter @karthikkalyan90.

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5 Replies to "Getting started with Create React App"

  1. When I run npx create-react-app today it outputs a horrible version of App.js

    import React from ‘react’;

    function App() {
    return (

    How do I get the standard es6 version back?

  2. In “TITLE AND META TAGS”, line 15..-ish: “…This way, the number of HTML requests..” —let it be “…HTTP requests…”…

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