Sunsetting Create React App – React

When we released Create React App in 2016, there was no clear way to build a new React app. To create a React app, you had to install a bunch of tools and wire them up together yourself to support basic features like JSX, linting, and hot reloading. This was very tricky to do correctly, so the community created boilerplates for common setups. However, boilerplates were difficult to update and fragmentation made it difficult for React to release new features. Create React App solved these problems by combining several tools into a single recommended configuration. This allowed apps a simple way to upgrade to new tooling features, and allowed the React team to deploy non-trivial tooling changes (Fast Refresh support, React Hooks lint rules) to the broadest possible audience. This model became so popular that there’s an entire category of tools working this way today. .