Create React App Review

When I started learning React, configuring my React project was my biggest problem. Everyone has a different pattern on setting up their React environment. Therefore it was hard to begin writing React code.

Then I find out that in 2016/7 came out with this react cli create-react-app. The reason is because many React programmer has similar configuration problem, which lead to the term ‘javascript fatigue’ back in 2016. Facebook realize this problem and came up with a solution.

create-react-app came is preconfigured. It has webpack configured so I can just focus on writing react code. For further customization I can use the eject command and customize from there.

It also has a build tool so I can change my react site to static site and host it with surge.

npm install -g create-react-app

create-react-app my-app
cd my-app/
npm start

Reference:

• https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/master/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md
• https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/07/22/create-apps-with-no-configuration.html