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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

Mentions per year 165 mentions · busiest year 2017 (45)
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  1. ▲ 6
    Create React App 3.0
    story by johnny_reilly · 2019-04-22 · 0 comments
  2. …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
  3. …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…
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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…
  7. …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?
  8. …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 )
  9. ▲ 9
    Create React App Adds Support for TypeScript
    story by Vinnl · 2018-10-30 · 1 comment
  10. 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
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    TypeScript support added to Create React App
    story by mattwoodnyc · 2018-10-22 · 87 comments
  12. …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…
  13. ▲ 1
    Create-react-app 2.0 released
    story by robin_reala · 2018-10-02 · 0 comments
  14. There is already a pull request and it looks promising! https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/4837
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    Last Call for Create React App v2
    story by rayshan · 2018-09-27 · 2 comments
  16. …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!
  17. 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
  18. …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
  19. …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
  20. > https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/2398 Equating 'create-react-app' package with React is silly. By that logic, I can wrap $library_of_your_choice in scaffolding and then blame it for the bloat I've chosen to add. >…
    comment by wakeywakeywakey · 2018-08-28 · in Service Workers
  21. > What? https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/2398 > Consumers demand rich apps and interactivity They really don't. That's an assumption without data. EDIT: see gov.uk. It works quite well without being fancy.
    comment by pmlnr · 2018-08-28 · in Service Workers
  22. …of create-react-app (2.0) will have a bit more flexibility. See: Roadmap for react-scripts@2.0 https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/3815
  23. …in the `create-react-app` project to learn more about how the overall project is structured: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/pac...
  24. …benefits the next person to work with the code, be it another developer or me in a few months. [0] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
  25. …https://jakearchibald.com/2017/es-modules-in-browsers/ [2]: https://github.com/tapio/live-server [3]: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app [4]: https://github.com/danprince/typescript-quickstart
  26. …some of them just reinventing the wheel. Do we really need another one? I'm not sure. - https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app (50k stars) - https://github.com/react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate (19k stars) -…
  27. …the README: Preconfigured Features that come with your Parcel setup: * [babel-preset-react-app]( https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/tree/next/packa... ) so you can use the exact same JS features that come with create-react-app…
  28. …service workers) but overall it's been a massive bootstrapping productivity booster for me. [1] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
    comment by davedx · 2018-04-12 · in Why is Ember fading away?
  29. …tool to set up a project that has good defaults, with no config needed on your part: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app - CodeSandbox.io is a full online IDE that lets you build real apps in your browser, including use of NPM…
  30. …but here's an example from create-react-app, the official point of entry for people learning React: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/pac... The README included on a project generated through CRA is 116KB. A…
    comment by dictum · 2018-02-01 · in The Case for React-Like Web Components
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    Facebook/create-react-app: Create React apps with no build configuration
    story by rbanffy · 2018-01-30 · 2 comments
  32. …about 2.0 -> 3.0 last time. Cheers to the CRA maintainers. Thanks for giving me some time back! [1] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/next/packa...
    comment by paws · 2018-01-26 · in Webpack 4 Beta released
  33. …can you say how it is different or better than https://github.com/mozilla-neutrino/neutrino-dev or https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app
    comment by zaphirplane · 2018-01-04 · in Show HN: React-Redux-Sass Starter Kit
  34. …for less: https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-react-scripts-less also here are the official docs: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...
    comment by _v7gu · 2017-12-13 · in The State of JavaScript 2017
  35. Have you ever tried a tool like https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app ? It makes your comment totally irrelevant.
  36. …sure are insane. Trying to figure out how it all connects together is an exercise in futility. [0] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app [1] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#determining-the-character-enco...
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-12-04 · in I Don't Want to Configure Apps (2016)
  37. …only doing frontend work occasionally and not as part of your normal job. I have to point out that https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app is great if you do decide to go with React and want answers to aforementioned…
    comment by kirillseva · 2017-11-16 · in Using Vue.js and Rails
  38. I implore you to checkout create-react-app to get a hello world really quick: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app npm install -g create-react-app create-react-app my-app cd my-app/ npm start Your sentiment is correct that…
    comment by giantsloth · 2017-11-10 · in How we do Vue at GitLab: one year later
  39. FYI react-create-app also has PWA features: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...
  40. …https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/13815 and https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/16991 , such as https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/issues... .
  41. Looks promising https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app ! That's the one part of the stack I still need to learn (becuase jQuery is not trendy anymore apparently)
  42. Stick to https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/ and you'll be golden. If you need more config later, you can "eject", but this is a one-command-and-go kind of thing that is well maintained and works great.
  43. …https://github.com/saguijs/sagui https://github.com/mozilla-neutrino/neutrino-dev https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app They help frame this domain's perspective on the timeless tension between usability and flexibility - ie
    comment by tombh · 2017-09-05 · in The Wonderful World of Webpack
  44. …app with create-react-app [0]. 2) Add bootstrap as specified in their README [1]. 3) Profit. [0] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/ [1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...
  45. ▲ 2
    Same old PATENTS file in create-react-app
    story by talkingtab · 2017-08-28 · 1 comment
  46. …use React (that won't prevent you from plugging it to your django backend btw), just use CRA! [1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app [2]: https://github.com/zeit/next.js/
    comment by robinricard · 2017-08-28 · in Django and React/Redux Boilerplate Project
  47. …have a couple other options besides ejecting: - Create your own custom fork of the react-scripts ( https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/tree/m... ) package that CRA uses - Use the react-app-rewired (…
    comment by acemarke · 2017-08-27 · in How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2017
  48. …covers practically everything you'd ever need to know about state-of-the-art Frontend JS tooling: https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m... create-react-app itself is great for quick prototyping, but for non-trivial…
    comment by lewisl9029 · 2017-08-27 · in How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2017
  49. …but I focus on what's my best weapon for the job. - [1] https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios - [2] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app - [3] https://github.com/KingPixil/moon
  50. …way too long. However, I'll note I didn't even mention big data, analytics, or monitoring. [0] https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app [1] http://imgur.com/QXLL0XJ
    comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2017-06-25 · in Google Web Starter Kit