Starting new React project

react-proj-bootstrap-temp.txt

link to codeacademy tutorial
https://www.codecademy.com/articles/react-setup-v

npm init
npm install --save react
npm install --save react-dom (npm i -S {react,react-dom})
npm install --save-dev  babel-core babel-loader babel-preset-env babel-preset-react (npm i -D babel-{core,loader} babel-preset-env babel-preset-react)

In root dir, create a file '.babelrc' 
  {"presets": ["env", "react"]}
  
Set up webpack (transformation manager)
npm install --save-dev  webpack webpack-dev-server html-webpack-plugin (npm i -D webpack webpack-dev-server html-webpack-plugin)

create webpack config file 'webpack.config.js':
var HTMLWebpackPlugin = require('html-webpack-plugin');
var HTMLWebpackPluginConfig = new HTMLWebpackPlugin({
  template: __dirname + '/app/index.html',
  filename: 'index.html',
  inject: 'head'
});

module.exports = {
  entry: __dirname + '/app/index.js',
  module: {
    loaders: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        loader: 'babel-loader'
      }
    ]
  },
  output: {
    filename: 'transformed.js',
    path: __dirname + '/build'
  },
  plugins: [HTMLWebpackPluginConfig]
};

npm run build
npm run start