Installing prerequisites for Create React App

First and foremost, you'll need to have npm installed on the computer that you're working on. Without that, there's no way to install the prerequisite libraries and projects. You can download Node and npm for your project at https://nodejs.org, then perform the following steps:

1. Find the appropriate installer package for your computer and operating system for Node and NPM at https://nodejs.org and follow the instructions provided by the installer.
2. Install an appropriate code editor or Interactive Development Environment (IDE). I've had the best experiences with Visual Studio Code, so that gets my personal recommendation, but you can use anything you're comfortable with!
3. Once you've installed Node and npm (if you haven't already), you're ready to go!

Now that everything is set up, working, and installed to the version that we need, we can start iterating! One of the fastest ways to learn a project is to start building it and iterating on it as we learn more, so we're going to do exactly that.