• Prerequisite
• Package Management

Package Management

No matter you want to get started on smart contract development or frontend development, You should probably start on installation of Node.js & NPM (both frontend and smart contract frameworks rely on Node.js and npm). As I use Mac, it's convenient for me to install and manage the version using nvm.

Alternative to npm

If you're still using npm, I would suggest to use yarn as it's much faster to add a package & especially when you need to install the package after cloning other's code (since it's parallel). After you install npm, you use npm install --global yarn command to install yarn.

Then you just have to use:

• yarn to replace npm install
• yarn add <package-name> to replace npm install <package-name>
• yarn create react-app to replace npm create-react-app
• but something like npx is not replaceable

You'll also need to learn how to write the scripts section in package.json, see official doc.