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Brunch vs Create React App: What are the differences?
What is Brunch? Ultra-fast HTML5 build tool. Brunch is an assembler for HTML5 applications. It's agnostic to frameworks, libraries, programming, stylesheet & templating languages and backend technology.
What is Create React App? Create React apps with no build configuration. Create React apps with no build configuration.
Brunch can be classified as a tool in the "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners" category, while Create React App is grouped under "Javascript UI Libraries".
Brunch and Create React App are both open source tools. It seems that Create React App with 69.4K GitHub stars and 15.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Brunch with 6.58K GitHub stars and 461 GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Create React App has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 67 developers stacks; compared to Brunch, which is listed in 14 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.
Pros of Brunch
- Easy and awesome13
- Ultra Fast9
- Light Configuration9
- Built-in dev server with live reload4
- Simple to use3
- Has many pre-configurable framework "skeletons"2
Pros of Create React App
- No config, easy to use2
- Maintained by React core team2
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Cons of Brunch
Cons of Create React App
- No SSR1