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Create React App vs Relay: What are the differences?

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

What is Relay? A JavaScript Framework for Building Data-Driven React Applications, by Facebook. Never again communicate with your data store using an imperative API. Simply declare your data requirements using GraphQL and let Relay figure out how and when to fetch your data.

Create React App and Relay can be primarily classified as "Javascript UI Libraries" tools.

Create React App and Relay are both open source tools. It seems that Create React App with 69.3K GitHub stars and 15.8K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Relay with 13.1K GitHub stars and 1.29K 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 Relay, which is listed in 39 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.

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Pros of Create React App
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    No config, easy to use
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    Maintained by React core team
Cons of Create React App
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    No SSR

What is Create React App?

Create React apps with no build configuration.

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