Creating the project structure

Now it's time to create our project structure. Organizing source files may sound like a simple task, but a well-thought-out project structure organization helps us understand the underlying architecture of our application. You'll see an example of this later in this book, when we'll talk about the Flux application architecture. Let's start by creating our root project directory named snapterest inside your home directory ~/snapterest/.

Then, inside it, we will create two other directories:

• ~/snapterest/source/: Here, we'll store our source JavaScript files
• ~/snapterest/build/: Here, we'll put compiled JavaScript files and an HTML file

Now, inside ~/snapterest/source/, create the components/ folder so that your project structure would look like this:

• ~/snapterest/source/components/
• ~/snapterest/build/

Now when we have our fundamental project structure ready, let's start populating it with our application files. First, we need to create our main application file app.js in the ~/snapterest/source/ directory. This file will be the entry point to our application, ~/snapterest/source/app.js.

Leave it empty for now, as we have a more pressing matter to discuss.