Today, we will dive into setting up a fresh project with React and TypeScript. This combination is powerful for building robust and scalable web applications. React is a popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces, while TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing to the language. By using TypeScript with React, we can catch errors early, improve code quality, and enhance developer productivity.

First, we need to ensure that Node.js is installed on our system. Node.js is a runtime environment that allows us to run JavaScript on the server-side. We can check if Node.js is installed by opening a terminal and running node -v. If Node.js is not installed, we can download it from the official website and follow the installation instructions. Once Node.js is set up, we can proceed to create a new React project using Create React App.

Create React App is a tool built by the developers at Facebook to help set up new React projects quickly and efficiently. To create a new project with TypeScript support, we can run npm create vite@latest in the terminal. This command will give you some options to create an app. We'll create a new React project with all the necessary configurations for TypeScript using this CLI command. We can then navigate into the project directory, install the package dependencies and then start the development server with npm start, and begin building our React application with TypeScript. With our project set up, we are ready to start coding and exploring the endless possibilities of React and TypeScript!