If you want to learn a modern JavaScript framework like React or Angular, you better be familiar with the terminal! So many frameworks and tools assume that you're proficient with it, without ever explaining it. This blog post is your missing manual, covering all of the most important fundamentals.

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Modern front-end frameworks like React, Angular, and Vue rely heavily on the terminal. If you're not comfortable with command line interfaces, you'll struggle to run a local development server or build your application. We don't really need to know 98% of the stuff you can do with a terminal. Instead, we should focus on the most-important critical fundamentals.

The Front-End Developer's Guide to the Terminal

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