The goal here is to teach myself how to create a react project from scratch. The application itself doesn't actually do anything.
This is an implementation of the following tutorial: https://medium.com/@paooolino/a-simple-react-project-setup-for-rapid-application-prototyping-4673cb7c8c4a
The original author's implementation is here: https://github.com/paooolino/react-boilerplate