I have globally installed eslint via cmd and its also installed as an extension in vs code. After that I used the following command in the vs code terminal to initialize it:

npx eslint --init 

I used the Airbnb style guide option while setting it up. But even running the default file that comes when you create a react app multiple errors are shown like this screenshot of errors.
I have just started learning React, and don't know what other details might be needed to solve this issue. Below is the App.js file code.

import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';

function App() {
  return ( <
    div className = "App" >
    <
    header className = "App-header" >
    <
    img src = {
      logo
    }
    className = "App-logo"
    alt = "logo" / >
    <
    p >
    Edit < code > src / App.js < /code> and save to reload. <
    /p> <
    a className = "App-link"
    href = "https://reactjs.org"
    target = "_blank"
    rel = "noopener noreferrer" >
    Learn React <
    /a> <
    /header> <
    /div>
  );
}

export default App;

Edit: Imported React module and added

 "react/jsx-filename-extension": [1, { "extensions": [".js", ".JSX"] }]

in rules of .eslinrc.json but

Line 7:5:  JSX not allowed in files with extension '.js'  react/jsx-filename-extension 

this error is still there, despite deleting and reinitializing eslint for my app.