Code Funz: Learn from Scratch Node js

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

React JS Installation on Windows

- There are several ways to install React JS. This is the quickest way to get started by using ‘create-react-app’ tool maintained by Facebook.

-Prerequisites :

Make sure you have a recent version of Node.js installed.

Don't worry if you don’t have it and you don’t know how to install Node JS. Just checkout my blog "Node JS - Getting Started"

Step by Step Installation

Step - 1) Download the ‘create-react-app’ Tool from GitHub

Note : Extract the file

Step - 2) Navigate to the project directory and Open command prompt

Step - 3) Enter the following commands

1. npm install -g create-react-app

2. create-react-app my-app

Note : Check the project directory you will see 'my-app' folder is created.

3. cd my-app

4. npm start

Once we type “npm start” the application will start execution on port 3000. It opens the default browser in url -> http://localhost:3000/. You will see ‘Welcome to React’ greeting page.

If you want to save the time spend on installation you can also use Online React Editors such as :-

1) Code Sandbox

2)Stackblitz

Tuesday, 31 October 2017

Node JS - Getting Started

Node

- Node.js is a JavaScript runtime.

- It is commonly referred as node.

- It uses a non-blocking I/O (asynchronous) model that makes it lightweight, efficient, popular, fast, scalable and reliable.

- Examples of NodeJS are Netflix, PayPal and Uber.

* Before starting first thing you should ask yourself is "What is Programming Language ?"

- Program is a set of instruction for the computer to carry out. The instruction written in the language which computer understands is called Programming Languages.