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Set up a modern web app by running one command.

165 mentions on Hacker News by 122 people: 31 stories, 134 comments · first 2016-07-22 · latest 2026-03-14

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  1. …here's the issue I filed pushing the React team to deprecate CRA (after some online discussion): - https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/17004 and a follow-up PR where I tried to rewrite the initial rather confusing…
    comment by acemarke · 2026-03-14 · in Vite 8.0 Is Out
  2. …don't understand how people used to think scripts like this are the proper way to bundle an app. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/packa... vite is great, is all I am saying
    comment by karel-3d · 2026-03-13 · in Vite 8.0 Is Out
  3. …need for a lot of early success with a local environment for learning / building with React. [1] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app [2] https://react.dev/learn/creating-a-react-app
    comment by toddmorey · 2025-03-26 · in You should know this before choosing Next.js
  4. …describing the specific breakage and recommending an actual official deprecation announcement ( https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/17004 ) - The React team finally took action to fix the CRA breakage, then wrote the blog…
    comment by acemarke · 2025-02-14 · in Sunsetting Create React App
  5. Create React App should not be used because it is no longer maintained. Here is its GitHub repro: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/commits/main/ . It has had very few updates since July 2022. This is bad because it needs…
    comment by StressedDev · 2025-01-07 · in The Future of Htmx
  6. …a lot of coding bootcamps teach React, maybe with TS, maybe with JS. Enter react-create-app. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app The docs are a link, while the commands you can copy and paste are laid out at 9th row in the README.…
    comment by foul · 2024-08-18 · in Micro-libraries should never be used
  7. …a tool to get started and get something running fast. Perhaps, it's not even best at that anymore." https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/discussions/117...
    comment by azangru · 2024-02-27 · in React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024
  8. …among newbies across multiple teams I've worked with. Also see this highly contentious thread: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/6880
    comment by keb_ · 2023-09-06 · in Making sense of React Server Components
  9. CRA affected: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/13171 and everyone whose production build depends on it.
    comment by Varqu · 2023-05-17 · in Webpack production issue that will break half of the internet
  10. Seems you are right. More context here: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/13077
    comment by thr717272 · 2023-03-28 · in How to start a React Project in 2023
  11. Last I checked the "unfixed vulnerabilities" where regex Denial Of Service at build time, see https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11174
    comment by thr717272 · 2023-03-28 · in How to start a React Project in 2023
  12. Interesting that CRA isn’t mentioned anymore. Someone opened an issue to discuss this: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/13072
    comment by dwaltrip · 2023-03-18 · in New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
  13. Seems like it is not a new problem. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11174
    comment by kris_wayton · 2023-01-18 · in Ask HN: Is create-react-app no longer maintained?
  14. …were not actually Facebook employees. See this discussion thread from a couple years ago: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11180
    comment by acemarke · 2023-01-18 · in Ask HN: Is create-react-app no longer maintained?
  15. …source files. CRA configures jest to look for test files in arc/, but let's users override that. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/tree/main/packa... https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/tree/main/packa...
    comment by mikewhy · 2022-03-17 · in Delightful React file/directory structure
  16. …larger projects, do have scripts that do a lot of boiler plate for you, such as Create-React-App. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app but that is for a specific use case.
    comment by balls187 · 2022-02-01 · in Fetch API has landed into Node.js
  17. …hoping the upgraded internals will remove the need for CRACO. Here's a link to CRA v5 on Github: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/milestone/81?cl...
    comment by 01brett · 2021-11-05 · in Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS
  18. …Create-React-App plans to support Webpack 5 in an upcoming CRA 4.1 release (4.0 is in alpha now): https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/9613#iss...
    comment by acemarke · 2020-10-10 · in Webpack 5
  19. …incompatibility of) major version updates[0] doesn't feel like an industry best practice. [0] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/9033#iss...
    comment by dane-pgp · 2020-08-11 · in React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features
  20. …actual vulnerability that affects your apps. (Edit: I've cut a release though; see my response in https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/9033#iss... )
    comment by danabramov · 2020-08-11 · in React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features
  21. …moved If you don't like things moving too fast, then React does seem to be the ideal ecosystem: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/9033#iss... TL;DR A vulnerability was discovered in a transitive dependency of…
    comment by dane-pgp · 2020-08-11 · in React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features
  22. …don't have to keep up with which feature ships in which browser; that's what browserslist is for. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/pac...
    comment by brlewis · 2020-06-16 · in Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends
  23. …issue. Except for monorepos/yarn workspaces, that still doesn't have first class support[0] [0] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/1333
    comment by lukeramsden · 2020-05-26 · in Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective
  24. So the issue I'm referring to is this, which has been open since 2017 https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/2353 There's a slew of workarounds offered in that github issue, most people (including another team in my org) opted…
    comment by sngz · 2020-04-29 · in What I wish I knew about React
  25. …https://progressiveapp.store/pwa/219 and https://progressiveapp.store/pwa/87 EDIT: Might be a bug: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/8889
    comment by hneyman · 2020-04-24 · in PWA Store
  26. …the entire JS toolchain for a modern SPA is a HUGE task, just checkout CRA dependencies : https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/pac...
    comment by Raed667 · 2020-04-13 · in Rome: An experimental JavaScript toolchain
  27. …happened again 2 years after the left-pad incident: https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/41zfb8qpvrdj https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/3701 https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9113 But anyway whether or not the…
    comment by kllrnohj · 2020-04-03 · in How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?
  28. …willing to learn React. It's an open source project from facebook. Here is the link the github: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app . It's good quick start to building the front end of an application.
    comment by jdnordy · 2020-03-02 · in Ask HN: How do I get started with developing an app from scratch?
  29. I would look into CRA ( https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app ). It handles all the Babel/Transpiling/Webpack mumbo-jumbo for you so you can focus on writing code. Although I would eventually recommend learning how to utilize Babel…
    comment by hastes · 2020-02-13 · in The web as a GUI toolkit
  30. …-m newproject". There must be a good reason. Will try making one in my free time to find out. [0] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/django-admin/#star... [2]…
    comment by zomglings · 2019-12-07 · in Structuring Your Project
  31. This one for instance: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/6135 If you need to use CRA behind a different publicPath in dev (behind a gateway) you can't and need to eject.
    comment by mbeaudru · 2019-12-07 · in Create-React-App 3.3
  32. …also coming soon to create-react-app, planned for v3.3 (current release is react-scripts@3.2.0) - https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/7438 I think they're just waiting on support for the new syntax in prettier.
    comment by wayneftw · 2019-11-05 · in TypeScript 3.7
  33. Check out create-react-app: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app It sets up a 'modern' React-based web dev environment that can be used to immediately start experimenting with stuff. React acts as a view layer, so you can write…
    comment by crooked-v · 2019-10-24 · in Electron 7.0
  34. …I'd encourage you to give it another try (especially TypeScript) It's matured quite a bit. [0] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app [1] https://cli.angular.io/
    comment by vikingcaffiene · 2019-08-22 · in Modern JavaScript tooling is too complicated?
  35. …If you need an SPA then I'd recommend https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel . There is also https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app which is super popular but I don't recommend it. (Because it's based on Weback and I believe that…
    comment by brillout · 2019-08-10 · in Ask HN: Modern day web development for someone who last did it 15 years ago
  36. …project maintains a great list of "confusing browser globals" for exactly this situation! https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/tree/master/pac... You can use it along with ESLint to detect situations where a variable reference is…
    comment by exogen · 2019-06-20 · in Math.Round opens the browser print dialog
  37. …Click through to the actual page, though, and you get a single, simple set of startup commands. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app#quick-overview EDIT: For reference, the URL where I see the ambiguous startup steps:…
    comment by brlewis · 2019-04-22 · in Comparing JVM alternatives to JavaScript
  38. …a real pain, but create-react-app handles all of the config for you, and is a pretty great tool: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app I'm no expert, but if you have any specific questions about any of this, I'll do my best to point…
    comment by 9935c101ab17a66 · 2019-04-04 · in Gimli – A Visual Studio Code extension for front-end developers
  39. …combined, but surprisingly userfriendly still. To easily try this with just about any IDE check out https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
    comment by barrystaes · 2019-04-03 · in New year, same old plans
  40. …you might want to evaluate next.js [0] and create-react-app [1]. [0] https://nextjs.org/ [1] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2019-04-01 · in Ask HN: Is all programming constantly changing or just front-end JavaScript?
  41. …from 1.x to 2.x [2] [0]( https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/docs/advanced-co... ) [1]( https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/CHA... ) [2]( https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/CHA... ) That…
    comment by petetnt · 2019-02-19 · in A Newly-Generated Create-React-App 2.1.5 App Has 1,568 Dependencies
  42. …side projects. React is pretty annoying to set up yourself since it needs to be compiled, so use https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app to spin up quickly or just host vanilla html/css/js and slowly transition to react as you please.…
    comment by PacifyFish · 2019-01-05 · in Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?
  43. …purpose and easier to use. If you're up to sinking a few hours into it, try create-react-app ( https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app ) and then use a react component library like material ui ( https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui )
    comment by rices · 2018-12-07 · in Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?
  44. Diff of the pull request: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/4837/commi...
    comment by davidjnelson · 2018-10-22 · in TypeScript support added to Create React App
  45. …when it comes to DOM manipulations. 2) The generator is made with ReactJS. I'm so grateful to https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app for saving tons of time with configuring the building. Authentication runs on Google Firebase. And I…
    comment by alexanderisora · 2018-10-04 · in Show HN: Unicorn Platform – HTML landing page generator
  46. There is already a pull request and it looks promising! https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/4837
    comment by ggregoire · 2018-10-02 · in Create React App 2.0: Babel 7, Sass, and More
  47. …to write a metacomponent for. Do you know if anyone is actually doing this? edit: As it turns out, https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/3675 , yes!
    comment by kansface · 2018-09-11 · in Stop Writing JavaScript Compilers. Make Macros Instead (2014)
  48. Here is another PR, more recent, based on Babel 7 and its TS support: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/4837 I'm waiting it to be merged to switch to TS.
    comment by ggregoire · 2018-09-02 · in TypeScript at Google
  49. …a bug in Flow. There is an issue about it on GitHub opened in 2016". I'm right now waiting for this https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/4837 to be merged to move all my projects to TS. Edit: and I don't blame the devs working…
    comment by ggregoire · 2018-09-02 · in TypeScript at Google
  50. …they're at least considering it. [2] [1] https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript [2] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/2815
    comment by Vinnl · 2018-09-02 · in TypeScript at Google