Understanding the Frontend Dependencies
Understand the importance of npm for managing frontend dependencies in React applications. Explore key packages such as react-dom for web rendering, react-router-dom for routing, and Bootstrap integration tools. Learn how npm simplifies dependency management compared to script tags and ensures organized, up-to-date project libraries.
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Frontend dependencies
Earlier, we learned that frontend dependencies are defined in package.json. Why not just list all the dependencies as script tags in index.html? Why do we need the extra complexity of npm package management in our project? The answer is that a long list of dependencies is hard to manage. If we used script tags, we’d need to make sure these are ordered correctly. We’d also be responsible for downloading the packages, placing them locally in our project, and keeping them up to date. We have a huge list of dependencies in our scaffolded project already, without starting work on any functionality in our app. For ...