Because I'm a huge fan of dockerizing all of my development environments, I don't want to install node, npm (or yarn), and create-react-app
in my machine, not even for generating a create-react-app scaffold.

For that reason I created a simple docker image, that does only one thing, installs create-react-app and generates a create-react-app scaffold.

Usage

$ docker run --rm -v $PWD:/app edgargonzalez/create-react-app my-app

Creating a new React app in /app/my-app.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...
...
Happy hacking!

Github repo

The code for the Docker image lives in the following repository:

edgar / docker-create-react-app

Docker image for create-react-app

Docker image for create-react-app

A docker image to avoid installing node, npm (yarn), and create-react-app in a development machine, to generate a create-react-app scaffold.

Usage

$ docker run --rm -v $PWD:/app edgargonzalez/create-react-app my-app

Creating a new React app in /app/my-app.

Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes.
Installing react, react-dom, and react-scripts...
...
Happy hacking!

View on GitHub