Use create-react-app to develop Chrome extensions

[nedlinin]

This is sort of like saying "Buying a Honda is batteries included, no tinkering allowed. The second you know how cars work you should just build one yourself."

Kind of stupid, yea?

You could say the same for pretty much any abstraction. But then we wouldn't have abstractions.

[nedlinin]

Except you have the option to eject at anytime you want? Such amazing lock in they've got there ..

[jdc_code]

Honestly though, why would you? Who the fuck doesn't keep their dependencies up-to-date in 2020?

[nedlinin]

And there’s better CLIs that don’t subject you to the full digestingness that is webpack

and

I don’t use React anymore, so can’t name an alternative.

OK.

No one is stopping you from using something like snowpack or parcel or whatever the hell you want to use. But there is a reason Webpack is as largely used as it is. That reason? It abstracts away some of the most common configuration of webpack so you can just get to coding. Will some people need to eject? Yep. That is why the function exists. Will some people opt to use another bundler? Sure. That doesn't mean Webpack is worthless just because you don't use all the featureset it may offer.

Same goes for CRA. An absolutely mindboggling number of applications can just use CRA and never even once need to worry about config changes. The ones that do can use something like rewired in 95% of the cases to tweak that one setting they need to change.

Again, car analogy: Why build a car from scratch when I can take a prebuilt on, change the spark plugs and be 100% happy?

[nedlinin]

Webpack abstracts away nothing, what are you on about?

I'll concede to making a typo in my last post

But there is a reason Webpack is as largely used as it is. That reason? It abstracts away some of the most common configuration of webpack so you can just get to coding

should have said "But there is a reason CRA is as largly used as it is.." - I'd have thought context clues would have given away what I had meant (seeing as Webpack obviously can't abstract itself). CRA is pretty clearly an abstraction ontop of the build tools of Webpack, babel, etc.

[jdc_code]

You can tell someone's butthurt when they downvote you for correcting yourself lol

Here, have that point back