In order to be a productive React developer, you need to know about lots of different tools.

This includes tools that you actively use as part of your work, things like your code editor and your terminal application. But it also includes all of the tooling used under-the-hood, things like Babel and Webpack.

React developers are often just expected to somehow know how all of these things work! This can lead to frustration and impostor syndrome. And so, in this module, we'll take a tour through the tooling ecosystem, learning about all the non-React things you need to know to become a productive React developer.

As a bonus module, this module isn't a part of the linear course. So, when should you go through it?

When you get to the Wordle project, you'll suddenly need to work on a React application running on your local machine. The content in this module should really help, if you run into trouble getting a local development server up and running!

The goal for this module is to make sure that we all have a solid foundation. If you've been a JavaScript developer for a while, you might already have a pretty good grasp of these tools. This is an optional module. It doesn't count towards course completion. And so you can skim through it, or skip it entirely, if you're already comfortable with this stuff.