7 better ways to create a React app

What is the best tool for starting a new React project in 2023? Let's look at 7 good alternatives to create-react-app for starting a new ReactJS web development project.

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[rumplstiltztinkerstein]

The most important thing I learned about javascript is that every tutorial is outdated and should not be trusted. Thanks for shining a light on the dark fireship.

[theyreMineralsMarie]

Choosing modern technologies is such a gamble. 2 years ago nobody would have guessed that Vite would become the new standard for bootstrapping a react app. I'm glad my decision to use it on all new projects at my company paid off.

[LimitedWard]

Javascript/Typescript developers: Wow so many amazing options!

Me, a .NET developer: I never knew so many buzzwords could be crammed into such a short video.

[wundergraph]

Insane how your videos and content is only getting better and better. This account is a gem for all levels of developers. Thank you!

[kairb]

my problem with the js ecosystem is that nothing works out of the box as expected. Want to add TS? thats a day gone. Want to add linting, theres another day

[phantomwizard]

Your videos just keep getting better and better. Thanks for these awesome videos <3

[ayushvyas]

I haven't looked back ever since I switched from CRA to vite, so easy to setup and blazing fast compared to CRA

[jozzeh]

Planter CLI can be used with Vite or CRA starter. It's still a bit rough around the edges but
it gives a starting folder structure and commands to create components, hooks, ...
The CLI is quite customisable so it doesn't force you into a certain way of working.

[jineethehandsome]

A video that we all absolutely needed but never knew we needed

[evilmorty]

Perfect timing. Just decided I would start learning react and just heard that the default create app was lacking and have literally been searching yt and forums for a comparison of the alternatives.

[jeandelafuente]

i have to start next week to create my first project and didn't even know you have all these options to create a react JS app. THANKS!!!

[stijndcl]

The worst thing about CRA isn't just that it's slow, but the fact that you get a new random security vulnerability warning every other week by a peer dependency of CRA.

[funnygames]

Just on time! Thanks for the info, didn't know that create-react-app is outdated.

[sonnetsoftheapocalypse]

I just started learning react and this came to my rescue!

[cverde]

It brings back fond memories of learning ember js as a first frontend framework in 2014 when there still wasn't a cli and ember data was in beta. Documentation was horrible because each new version brought breaking changes. Yet I loved the added value over developping apps entirely with jQuery. Hearing from it makes me want to go and see what happened to it through the decade

[reinoob]

There's a trick with server side rendering with vite where you create different html files for different routes and just point it on the config file

[LQ]

This was very timely video for me, thank you! I just tried react to build an SPA and now moved it to vite-swc-ts with no problem. Could even setup single file output with a vite plugin!

[Ilya]

i would LOVE a video like this but for Native options. With SvelteKit 1.0, a re-summary of Expo/ React Native/SvelteKit Native/NativeScript/Flutter and all the other options for making an Android/IOS project off the same repo would be very very nice!

[elco]

Always manage to learn something new from these short vids <3

[Hmework]

I literally started learning react first since I saw I’d have to relearn HTML, JS, and CSS anyways and this came up so I can disregard the first part of the tutorial I learned. Thank you, I won’t make my first noob project as slow now.