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Exercise 1: Setup the example application

For our first exercise, we want to make sure we can run the subsequent exercises without problems. This means ensuring we have a working app against which to test.

It was created using Facebook's Create React App, so if you have any problems starting up, you can consult their extensive documentation.

Pro tip: This is another good exercise you can do before you get to the workshop 😀

Overview

• Success criteria
• Instructions
  • Install app dependencies
  • Start the app
• What we learned
• Up next

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Success criteria

• Our webserver should serve the example website (Verbo)

Instructions

Install app dependencies

In each exercise, there is a verbo directory where we will run our app.

1. In your terminal, cd to the verbo directory.

cd verbo

2. Install the dependencies.

npm i

Note: npm i is a shorter alias for npm install (two carpal tunnel surgeries and you'd want to type less, too.)

Start the app

npm start

Learn more about special npm "run" commands

You'll see the app spin up and print some info to the console:

✅ Open the app in your browser at http://localhost:3000. You should now have a working web application to test against with the next exercises!

Leave this tab open, we'll keep it running for the rest of the exercises.

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What we learned

• How to spin up our webserver to serve the example website (Verbo)

Up next

Exercise 2: Install WebDriver.io and write your first test