Create-React-App 3.3

Re:Create-React-App 3.3 by pavlov on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:26AM (#21711025)

I think of CRA as a cost of doing business in today's web apps, just like the cost of doing Android dev is to download Android Studio and let it install bazillion GBs of stuff; the cost of doing iOS dev is to buy a Mac, install Xcode and pay Apple an annual $99; etc.

Except the Apple tax, you can always work around those costs: for example, build Android apps with no IDE and no simulator and writing your own makefiles from scratch. But that doesn't really make any sense if your development work is any sort of business. If your hobby is toolchain configuration, then go for it. CRA feels the same to me.

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Re:Create-React-App 3.3 by 52-6F-62 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @08:10AM (#21711974)

I disagree.

Facebook released a highly competent Web UI library, and it was a game changer for how I thought about UI on the web at all.

Do I want to give my entire build process for the web to them? No.

Android Studio was released by the group who released the platform. XCode was released by the group who released the platform. Facebook didn’t build the web. I personally prefer having much more control over what code goes into my app.

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