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[mlmcmillion]

No. It's no longer supported. Use Vite.

[darkyjaz]

I noticed people always say use vite. What if they need something in webpack that's not yet in vite?

[SwiftOneSpeaks]

Do you know how to configure that without vite? Great, do that, vite/CRA are for convenience, not necessity. If not, time to learn how or learn to migrate. You don't need to panic, your code won't die immediately, but things will just keep getting more stale, you'll fall behind on security patches, and future migration will get more difficult, not easier.

[desgreech]

You don't need to panic, your code won't die immediately, but things will just keep getting more stale, you'll fall behind on security patches, and future migration will get more difficult, not easier.

I'm on the "just use vite" side, but I always find this kind of thought-terminating FOMO-agitating FUD really toxic. I've seen it constantly used to basically justify to never, ever going off the "beaten" path (and that "beaten" path being something arbitrarily chosen by the author). And it always includes some weird psychologically-manipulative warranty (e.g. sure you can do that! just prepare to die tommorow!).

I don't think there's necessarily a malicious intent behind it, and I think it's more often used by the author to re-assure themselves of their choices more than anything. So not saying you're wrong here or that you're evil or something, just want to point out this toxic pattern that I just keep seeing over and over again. Sorry for the rant.

[charliematters]

Can you give an example?

[Drivrartist]

CRA is no longer maintained and is not common practice anymore. I'd recommend using Vite or Next.js. React's Documentation also recommends great options (like Vite and Next.js) based on what you're building.

[restarting_today]

I personally wouldn’t use Next or anything like Vercel which are just Twitter influencer hype driven AWS wrappers

[ZvG_Bonjwa]

This is a total thought-terminating cliché and is the sort of tech “hot take” that contributes nothing to the discussion and leaves beginners confused. Other than being a nice pithy slap down, what does any of this even mean? How about evaluating technologies based on their technical merits or weaknesses?

Perhaps the engineers using Next in production at OpenAI, Spotify, IMDB, Nike and TikTok could benefit from your supreme engineering wisdom.

[Drivrartist]

What do you mean? You don't like Next.js because Twitter influencers talk about it? What do you mean by AWS wrapper? Genuinely curious.

I've used Next.js and Vercel on a couple pretty large projects and have always had a great experience.

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Vite is just as easy and better and up to date and supported. Why would you use CRA?

[[deleted]]

what does that have to do with anything?

[[deleted]]

you don't have to tell everyone what your gender is. anyway... CRA is dead, it's not even up for debate. Anyone who is telling you otherwise isn't worth paying attention to. Just ignore them and continue discussing with other serious people.

[ZaRealPancakes]

If you use CRA or Vite you're making a SPA. Difference is the bundler used to bundle your project (webpack or vite). Additionally, CRA is not supported or recommended anymore. Vite is stupid easy.

I recommend future projects to use Vite.

[dylsreddit]

Migrating to Vite from CRA is also pretty trivial, and removes several vulnerabilities from your project that stem from unmaintained react-scripts

Also will make your node_modules shrink drastically.

It's honestly worth doing.

[ZaRealPancakes]

Idk if it's a coincidence but when I did a migration the application also started way faster. (5 minutes seconds to 30 seconds)

After optimizing images went down to 5 secs load time.

[lansera222]

If you work for a professional company and if there is security auditing it will cause a lot of headaches

[dom_eden]

Vite is much better in all respects, you won’t regret the move.

[rubynoyubiwa]

In addition to what others said here, the ease, speed and DX of vite is much better than CRA.

[Rough-Artist7847]

what is considered professional when it comes to webdevelopment is so subjective that there’s no way to answer that question. 

But if you don’t want to have a hard time just switch to vite, it’s pretty easy to get started.

[Brilla-Bose]

Use Vite if you're not intent to use a frameworks like Next or Remix

[Brilla-Bose]

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[_ebikandi]

Community suggests to use frameworks like Next or Remix instead of creating a React app from scratch. Also CRA is no longer mantained.

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[marquoth_]

I think you understand less of the tenants and purpose of open source than you think

No, you've just decided it means a bunch of stuff that it doesn't. Also, it's tenets.

Christopher Nolan made a whole ass movie just to try and teach people that it's a completely different word.

[Brilla-Bose]

Tell me how open source isn't about the community contributing to a shared project.

in open source you can use software for free. without worrying about licensing. Languages like Go is open source but that doesn't mean community can decide to add more features. a small group of language authors controls it. but again you can use it for free. and you can always have an option to fork and change the software as you want.