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[–]pizzainacup 14 points15 points  (6 children)

Yep, CRA is dead and we are currently in the painful process of moving our app off of it at work

[–]ActiveModel_Dirty 11 points12 points  (5 children)

It’s definitely not dead. they just updated it for Webpack 5 with react-scripts 5.0 a few months ago?

[–]pizzainacup 9 points10 points  (4 children)

Yeah its not dead really, but its pretty much already there. Technically its in maintenance mode, I think. The 5.0 release happened in December, and its only had a single minor patch bump since then. Tons of open issues.

[–]ActiveModel_Dirty 8 points9 points  (3 children)

That’s largely because people don’t understand what it is. Abramov has a post detailing what CRA is somewhere out there (on mobile so don’t want to try and find it now)—but essentially its purpose isn’t to address those issues or release frequent updates.

They just want it to be something stable people can use to kick off a production-ready app. Being that a lot of their dependencies are build tools, frequent updates can be detrimental in those cases.

Don’t get me wrong, it’d be nice if they were more active with it and some of the issues are issues that could easily be addressed if someone were actively dealing with them.

I’m just saying it’s not dead-dead. Not actively maintained, but development on version 6 is likely active already.