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Discussion on: Don't use create-react-app: How you can set up your own reactjs boilerplate.

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Alexandru-Dan Pop

I like this article and agree with some of the points. Most important one is that you need to know what is running under the hood.

Considering that, I would like to point out the main disadvantage - you need to update manually all the build dependencies, or maintain outdated configs.

Create React App is not to be used for every app, it depends on the use case. Gatsby and Next.Js might also be great candidates for this 0 build tooling approach.

I wrote about it here:

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Nikhil Kumaran S

Great article.

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Alexandru-Dan Pop

Thanks!