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React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024

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Re: React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024

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Post by azangru »

hyfgfh wrote: post #2

So thats why CRA has been left to die?

What's the connection?

Also, take a look at this response from 2021:

"Like I said earlier, it was always the intention that we're not going to be able to work on it full-time... [I]t was intentionally designed for this kind of sporadic development. We would get critical fixes out as soon as posible, but overall, starting with 2.0, it's mostly in maintenance mode and does not strive to be the best tool for production React apps. It is a tool to get started and get something running fast. Perhaps, it's not even best at that anymore."

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/discussions/117...

Re: React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024

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Post by fabian2k »

hyfgfh wrote: post #2

So thats why CRA has been left to die?

CRA was never a fully official project, though there was a lot of confusion around that. It was in a weird semi-official state, it certainly had the endorsement of the React team initially but it didn't have actual resources from Meta behind it.

CRA was useful when it first appeared because the whole space was a big mess. But it very quickly outlived its usefulness, and its approach was really problematic in my opinion. The config was too complex to eject and modify compared to what you could do yourself with Webpack directly.

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