In this chapter, we have created our projects for the Q&A app that we are going to build throughout this book. We created the backend using the API ASP.NET Core template and the frontend using Create React App. We included TypeScript so that our frontend code is strongly typed, which will help us catch problems earlier and will help Visual Studio Code provide a better development experience.

We added linting to our frontend code to drive quality and consistency into our code base. ESLint is our linter and its rules are configured in a file called .eslintrc.json. We also added Prettier to our frontend code, which automatically formats our code. This is really helpful in code reviews. We configured the formatting rules in a .prettierrc file and used eslint-config-prettier to stop ESLint conflicting with Prettier.

So, we now have two separate projects for the frontend and backend, unlike what we have with the SPA template. This makes sense, mainly because we'll be using Visual Studio to develop the backend and Visual Studio Code to develop the frontend. So, there isn't any need to start both the frontend and backend together from within Visual Studio. 

In the next chapter, we are going to start to build the frontend in React and TypeScript.