How to install ReactJS on windows with ES6 way

Let's start a tutorial where we will discuss how to install ReactJS on windows with ES6. There are multiple ways to use ReactJS for your project but the best part is installed completely React with all the dependencies instead of CDN. It makes your application more stable along with upcoming updates. Tutorial quite simple among all available tutorial on the web for ReactJs with ES6 on Windows.

How to install ReactJS on Windows With ES6:

(You should have already installed Node.js for Windows. If you don't have, download from https://nodejs.org/en/download/ )

Installing React JS ES6 Way

1- Choose a directory (simply press Shift Key and Right click on the mouse, you will get terminal)
Enter below command:

mkdir foldername

Quick open CMD

You can also go through this article to add command option quick shortcut: How to add Open command window here option to right click

Let's move on the tutorial, I'm here using app name is react-tut, you can also choose your name.

Now  select the recently created app folder using below command:

cd react-tut 

2- Please note Node should installed on your machine after that you need to proceed below step, using below command initiate your first ReactJs application.

npm init --yes

3- Now run command to install ReactJs and save details on JSON :

npm install --save-dev react react-dom

4- After the successful installation of ReactJs on your Windows, we have to install some extra packages:

(Webpack) : Helps you to real-time update for CSS and JS file. Webpack uses async Input/Output and has multiple types of cache levels. This makes webpack fast and incredibly on the compilation.

npm install -g webpack

(Babel) : Babel has support for the latest version of a JavaScript pattern through syntax transformers. The pack­age man­ages cul­tur­ally-de­ter­mined ty­po­graph­i­cal (and other) rules, and hy­phen­ation pat­terns for a wide range of lan­guages.

npm install --save-dev babel babel-core babel-loader

and

npm install --save-dev babel-preset-es2015 babel-preset-react

Where --save-dev is used to save the package for development purpose and --save is used to save the package required for the application to run (you can use accordingly)

5- Install WebPack locally for peer dependencies:

Peer Dependencies: When Node Package Manager sees that your package is being installed into React app not have that dependency, or that has an unsupported version of it, it will display warning the user during the installation.

npm install -save-dev webpack

Webpack dev server (configuration):

npm install --save-dev webpack-dev-server react-hot-loader

6- Creating an example directory of your project:

mkdir example

7- Move into recently created example directory:

cd example

8- Create webpack server configuration:

notepad webpack.config.js

9- Open webpack.config.js and copy code from my GitHub repo:

https://gist.github.com/himstar/898e1a7fd92922cdf82254980817c65f (Sometimes apostrophes and hyphens get replaced if UTF version is different)

You can also copy from below code section but highly recommended to take config data from above URL (Sometimes apostrophes and hyphens get replaced if UTF version is different)

var webpack = require("webpack");
module.exports = {
 entry: {
 "react-reading-time": [
 "webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:8881/",
 "webpack/hot/only-dev-server",
 "./example/react-reading-time.jsx"
 ] },
 output: {
 path: __dirname,
 filename: "[name].js",
 publicPath: "http://localhost:8881/",
 chunkFilename: "[id].chunk.js",
 sourceMapFilename: "[name].map"
 },
 resolve: {
 extensions: ["", ".js", ".jsx", ".es6"],
 modulesDirectories: ["node_modules"]
 },
 module: {
 loaders: [
 {
 test: /\.jsx$|\.es6$|\.js$/,
 loader: "babel",
 query:
 {
 presets:["es2015", "react"]
 },
 exclude: /node_module/},
 { test: /\.scss$|\.css$/, loader: "style-loader!style!css!sass" }
 ]
 },
 plugins:
 [
 new webpack.NoErrorsPlugin()
 ],
 devtool: "eval-source-map"
};

10- Go to root directory of your project and open package.json file:
Add below Object  under scripts:

"start": "webpack-dev-server --config ./example/webpack.config.js --hot --port 8881"

(./example/webpack.config.js is a config file path under project folder example)

Ex-

"scripts": {

"start": "webpack-dev-server --config ./example/webpack.config.js --hot --port 8881",
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
 
},

11- Start NPM (node package manager) using below command to execute your ReactJs application:

npm start

12- Create an index HTML file in directory example index.html as below:

<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>My First React Example</title>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div id="react"> Hello !!</div>
</div>
<script src="/react-reading-time.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

13- Create a source directory 'src' inside example folder to add extra files such as images, CSS:

mkdir src

14- Create Babel module for ES6 (we already discussed babel):

notepad .babelrc

15- Open .babelrc paste lines and save:

{
presets: ['es2015', 'react']
}

16- Now you need to start NPM again using the command:

npm start

17-  May you get some console errors, ignore till now (we will discuss on later). Open your browser and enter your first ReactJS app URL as below:

http://localhost:8881/example/

(Your test webpage up and running well !!)

reactjs example server running up

If you stacked into something wrong then no need to worry, give a try with pre-coded complete setup file, download from my GitHub profile:

Download
*npm required

I tried to make this tutorial clear as I can, also we discussed almost all important point related to install ReactJS on windows, feel free to share your suggestions or ask a question.

Thanks for reading

Himanshu is a young engineer living in India. Currently working at Cognizant as a Senior Engineer. He is an ethical hacker & blogger too, doing lots of crazy stuff... If you seem interesting, go through his portfolio: www.himstar.info : "Open Source. Millions of open minds can't be wrong!

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