CRAO a CLI for creating react apps offline.

We can make it offline

We all know the struggle, every time we need to create a new react app wi must start by typing this command

npm create-react-app my-app

Then the skeleton of our app get created automatically with no build configuration, the problem here is there is a lot of NPM packages to download.
If you are like me living in a country with a very slow network, the process of creating new react app can take a while.
On the other hand if you are using a metered connection this is also can be a bad thing.

As we all know, necessity is the mother of invention.
So i made this tool that could help a lot of react developers to create apps offline and very fast you can find it here in NPM or in GitHub

installation

The installation process is as easy as drinking water.

npm install -g create-react-app-offline

Now we don't need internet, lets create our first app.

crao -n <app-name>

for example :

crao -n my-app

It will create a directory called my-app inside the current folder.
Inside that directory, it will generate the initial project structure and install the transitive dependencies:

my-app
├── README.md
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── .gitignore
├── public
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── index.html
│   └── manifest.json
└── src
    ├── App.css
    ├── App.js
    ├── App.test.js
    ├── index.css
    ├── index.js
    ├── logo.svg
    └── serviceWorker.js
    └── setupTests.js

Let's help each other

You can visit the repo on github or follow me on twitter, and lets work together on making more open source projects.

Comments

[Vaibhav Shukla]

Is this equally efficient as "npm create-react-app" ?

BTW, this is great when I don't have the internet access !

[obiabo Immanuel]

type npm install react-script

or type npm install

[MichaelTesemma]

Configure the react scripts in the app folder.

[MWLNKA]

I tried it on my Windows Machine and it works perfectly

[godlove1]

It a great project, I have been using it just to learn react but unable to create a production build please is there a solution to that? When I run npm run build it get stuck and nothing happens I don't know why

[Blurtec]

Tried installing it on my win10 32-bit but keeps failing

[timidij]

When I used this, if I do "import react from react" it shows me something like an error, could not find declaration file

[obiabo Immanuel]

it dosnt open the app on linux when you type npm start , it throws an error

[S. M. Ahad Ali Chowdhury]

How can i install axios in this folder for free??