React project in Visual Studio 2017

Question

I want to develop a React application in Visual Studio 2017 alongside my .NET application (in the same solution).

I am using TypeScript, so I want a project type where I

Answer 1

I did this with VS 2017 using article (click here). There you would find a template called Blank Node.js Web Application, please find it here .

Few good to know points:

• In Visual Studio 2017 there is no specific template for React as we have for Angular.

• There's a difference if you create your project using cli (refer here) and with Visual Studio. Cli created project loads all modules by default in node_modules and hence takes around 132 MB initially, but in case you create project using Visual Studio it loads only the required modules in node_modules and hence takes around 75 MB initially. This matters when you start deploying it in production.

Hope it'll help you !

Disclaimer: It always depends on requirements.