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Create React App

Create React apps with no build configuration
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What is Create React App?

Create React apps with no build configuration.
Create React App is a tool in the Javascript UI Libraries category of a tech stack.
Create React App is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Create React App's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Create React App?

Companies
70 companies reportedly use Create React App in their tech stacks, including Revolut, Braincube, and Digital Services.

Developers
953 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Create React App.

Create React App Integrations

Pros of Create React App
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No config, easy to use
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Maintained by React core team
Decisions about Create React App

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Create React App in their tech stack.

Tyler Kneidl
Full Stack Engineer at Abstract · | 4 upvotes · 13.5K views
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AstroAstro
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RemixRemix

Looking to move our product from Create React App to ssr. I’d been drawn to Remix for some time but with all the hype around Astro, I’m curious what someone more familiar can contribute… What would be your reason for choosing Remix vs Astro?

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Jian Yuan Lee
Tech Lead at Orbital Witness · | 6 upvotes · 36.3K views

A few months ago, we decided to migrate our web apps from Create React App to Next.js for its "batteries-included" approach as well as its advanced server-side rendering capabilities. This move allowed us to focus our development efforts on building what matters to us the most: automating property due diligence.

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Adebayo Akinlaja
Engineering Manager at Andela · | 30 upvotes · 3.2M views
Shared insights
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BitBitReactReactMaterial-UIMaterial-UI

I picked up an idea to develop and it was no brainer I had to go with React for the frontend. I was faced with challenges when it came to what component framework to use. I had worked extensively with Material-UI but I needed something different that would offer me wider range of well customized components (I became pretty slow at styling). I brought in Evergreen after several sampling and reads online but again, after several prototype development against Evergreen—since I was using TypeScript and I had to import custom Type, it felt exhaustive. After I validated Evergreen with the designs of the idea I was developing, I also noticed I might have to do a lot of styling. I later stumbled on Material Kit, the one specifically made for React . It was promising with beautifully crafted components, most of which fits into the designs pages I had on ground.

A major problem of Material Kit for me is it isn't written in TypeScript and there isn't any plans to support its TypeScript version. I rolled up my sleeve and started converting their components to TypeScript and if you'll ask me, I am still on it.

In summary, I used the Create React App with TypeScript support and I am spending some time converting Material Kit to TypeScript before I start developing against it. All of these components are going to be hosted on Bit.

If you feel I am crazy or I have gotten something wrong, I'll be willing to listen to your opinion. Also, if you want to have a share of whatever TypeScript version of Material Kit I end up coming up with, let me know.

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I'm working as one of the engineering leads in RunaHR. As our platform is a Saas, we thought It'd be good to have an API (We chose Ruby and Rails for this) and a SPA (built with React and Redux ) connected. We started the SPA with Create React App since It's pretty easy to start.

We use Jest as the testing framework and react-testing-library to test React components. In Rails we make tests using RSpec.

Our main database is PostgreSQL, but we also use MongoDB to store some type of data. We started to use Redis  for cache and other time sensitive operations.

We have a couple of extra projects: One is an Employee app built with React Native and the other is an internal back office dashboard built with Next.js for the client and Python in the backend side.

Since we have different frontend apps we have found useful to have Bit to document visual components and utils in JavaScript.

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Create React App Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Create React App?
Next.js
Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.
Create React Native App
Create React Native App allows you to work with all of the Components and APIs in React Native, as well as most of the JavaScript APIs that the Expo App provides.
Expo
It is a framework and a platform for universal React applications. It is a set of tools and services built around React Native and native platforms that help you develop, build, deploy, and quickly iterate on iOS, Android, and web apps.
Brunch
Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.
React Native
React Native enables you to build world-class application experiences on native platforms using a consistent developer experience based on JavaScript and React. The focus of React Native is on developer efficiency across all the platforms you care about - learn once, write anywhere. Facebook uses React Native in multiple production apps and will continue investing in React Native.
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