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Is Create-React-App a Dead End?

Frank Zickert | Quantum Machine Learning
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5 min readAug 9, 2019

create-react-app makes it easy to develop a React app. But it leaves you unsupported when it comes to deploying your app to a server.

Infrastructure-Components fill this gap. These React-components do all the technical configuration for you and let you create, start, and even deploy your React app with a single command.

Create-React-App is great to start with, but is it enough? Photo by Lubo Minar on Unsplash

Facebook’s create-react-app is an easy to way to start developing with React. It lets you concentrate on the development of your components rather than requiring you to first learn how to setup Typescript, Webpack, and Babel.

With create-react-app you can create your React app easily. And you can start it locally. So far so good.

But a web-application is not really useful if it is not online, right?

There’s just one problem: How do you deploy your app?

If you google “deploy create react app”, Facebook’s tutorial is the first result. It tells you that you need:

  • a server (yes! some hardware!) running Node.js
  • a web-server-app, like express.js
  • routing and relative paths

Of course, these things are doable. But they require you to configure the web-server. You’re leaving the easy create-react-app road now…

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