Finding React Artifacts

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A while back I wanted to experiment with a more recent version of React in a few projects. Specifically I wanted to enable some of the feature flags that the React team uses to gate specific experiemnts. These flags are compile-time evaluated, meaning I can't simply change them at runtime and have any version of React installed reflect the changes. Instead, I needed to clone the repo, change the flags, and then run a build locally.

Now, the React repo may have changed since I last tried this (which was maybe 4 years ago now), but back then you needed to have Java setup locally (or at least JDK setup) in order to complete the builds. At the time this was a decent hurdle to overcome, since I was mostly used to more common build toolchains like Babel/Webpack/etc.