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-As your app grows, you can catch and eliminate an entire category of bugs with static typechecking. You can use JavaScript extensions like [Flow](https://flowtype.org/) or [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) to statically typecheck your whole application. In complex applications, we recommend to use Flow or TypeScript for typechecking instead of typechecking with PropTypes.
+Static type checkers like [Flow](https://flowtype.org/) and [TypeScript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) identify certain types of problems before you even run your code. They can also improve developer workflow by adding features like auto-completion. For this reason, we recommend using Flow or TypeScript instead of `PropTypes` for larger code bases.
 
-## Using Flow with React
+## Flow
 
-For trying out Flow, use this [playground](https://flow.org/try/).
+Below are instructions to add Flow to your React application. (You can learn more about using Flow with React [here](https://flow.org/en/docs/react/).)
 
-Flow and [Babel](http://babeljs.io/) work well together, so it doesn’t take much to adopt Flow as a React user who already uses Babel.
+### Using Flow with Babel
 
-### With babel
+First install Babel. If you have not already done this, here is a [helpful setup guide](http://babeljs.io/docs/setup/).
 
-Flow and Babel are designed to work great together. It takes just a few steps to set them up together.
-
-If you don’t have Babel setup already, you can do that by following [this guide](http://babeljs.io/docs/setup/).
-
-Once you have Babel setup, install `babel-preset-flow` with either [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/) or [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/).
+Next install `babel-preset-flow` with either [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/) or [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/).
 
 ```bash
 yarn add --dev babel-preset-flow
 # or
-npm install --save-dev bebel-preset-flow
+npm install --save-dev babel-preset-flow
 ```
 
 Then add `flow` to your Babel presets config.
 
-```
+```json
 {
   "presets": ["flow"]
 }
 ```
 
-### With Create React App
+### Using Flow with Create React App
 
-[Create React App](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app) already supports Flow by default. Just [install Flow](https://flow.org/en/docs/install/) and create a `.flowconfig` file by running `flow init`.
+[Create React App](https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app) supports Flow by default. Just [install Flow](https://flow.org/en/docs/install/) and create a `.flowconfig` file by running `flow init`.
 
 ```bash
-create-react-app my-app && cd my-app
+create-react-app my-app
+cd my-app
 yarn add --dev flow-bin
 yarn run flow init
 ```
 
-Flow will be run as part of create-react-app’s scripts.
+Flow will now be run as part of `create-react-app`'s scripts.
 
-## Using TypeScript with React
+## TypeScript
 
-For a fast dive into TypeScript, go [here](https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/).
+You can learn more about using TypeScript with React [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter#typescript-react-starter).
 
-### With Create React App
+### Using TypeScript with Create React App
 
-All you need to do is:
+[react-scripts-ts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-scripts-ts) automatically configures a `create-react-app` project to support TypeScript. You can use it like this:
 
-```
+```bash
 create-react-app my-app --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts
 ```
 
-[react-scripts-ts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-scripts-ts) is a set of adjustments to take the standard create-react-app project pipeline and bring TypeScript into the mix.
-
 You can also try [typescript-react-starter](https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-React-Starter#typescript-react-starter).
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