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Create a React app with Vercel

a dev guide by Divjoy ✨

About this guide

This development guide walks you through everything you need to do to build a high-quality React app integrated with Vercel. Check out the tasks below to get started. To save time, you can also use our boilerplate, which gives you a complete React codebase with all of these tasks done for you. Okay, let's dive in!

Tasks

  • ⚛️Setup your React app

    Setup a React app using npx create-react-app and routing using React Router. There are many ways you can structure your app, but a common setup is to have an App component that defines top-level routes, with each route component imported from the /pages directory. The rest of your components should be located in your /components directory. You can then run your app locally with the npm run start command.
  • 🚀Deploy to Vercel

    To deploy your React app to Vercel first link it to a project with the vercel link command. Next you'll want to make sure any to add any environment vars used in your app to Vercel using vercel env add or via the environment vars UI. You can then use the vercel command to deploy your project to a unique preview URL or vercel --prod to deploy to your production domain.

Get the code

You can get the code for this guide with our React and Vercel Boilerplate. You'll get a complete React codebase with Vercel integration, all the tasks listed above done for you, and a responsive multi-page template. It should save you about two weeks of development time.

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