# Using the in-browser React and Babel libraries!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-in-browser-react-and-babel-libraries/637983>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [March 27, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-in-browser-react-and-babel-libraries/637983 "2018-03-27T02:09:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-in-browser-react-and-babel-libraries/637983/1 "2018-03-27T02:09:49Z")

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Hi everyone!  
If you are starting with learning React, the best way to get started is to use the in-browser React and Babel libraries. That’s what the Learning React book starts off with as well. Since the printed book may go out-of-sync with the recommended version and path to the libraries, this post will act as an anchor to always reference people to for the latest/recommended starting point.

With that said, here it is:

```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>React! React! React!</title>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/react@16/umd/react.development.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@16/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/babel-standalone@6.15.0/babel.min.js"></script>
</head>
 
<body>
  <script>
 
  </script>
</body>

```

If this matches what the Learning React book says, then great! If it doesn’t, I encourage you to always use the version of the libraries listed here instead of what is printed.

Cheers,  
Kirupa

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**Author:** ![cbrueggenolte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@cbrueggenolte](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cbrueggenolte)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-in-browser-react-and-babel-libraries/637983/2 "2018-05-15T19:24:30Z")

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Hi there, very nice. I was just looking for that. Hard to type everything out of the video. You forgot to mention or link here under the second lesson. So I came here to post a snippet/github link where someone else can find it, and now you already took care for it. Thanks!

But you should put a link to this here in the video description of lesson 2.

Thank you for the course, I will continue with lesson 4 now.

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-in-browser-react-and-babel-libraries/637983/3 "2018-05-16T01:49:29Z")

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Adding to the video description now! Thanks for the reminder 🙂