create-react-app VS craco

Compare create-react-app vs craco and see what are their differences.

craco

Create React App Configuration Override, an easy and comprehensible configuration layer for Create React App. (by dilanx)
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create-react-app craco
574 32
101,736 7,344
0.2% 0.4%
1.9 6.4
8 days ago 3 months ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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create-react-app

Posts with mentions or reviews of create-react-app. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

craco

Posts with mentions or reviews of craco. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-18.
  • Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2024
    I had some 'fun' figuring out how to deal with not going through create-react-app without doing a full eject, got something barely working ... and discovered https://craco.js.org/ already existed and did precisely what I'd part-implemented except better.

    On the upside, by that point I knew the CRA codebase well enough to predict what it would do even in edge cases, and CRACO's implementation was immediately comprehensible, and none of my colleagues had to try and understand my half-arsed NIH version.

    (avoiding being in any of this situation in the first place would likely have been preferable, but given where things were when I landed on the project in question that would've required a TARDIS)

  • Build a web editor with react-monaco-editor
    5 projects | dev.to | 4 May 2023
    Ejecting a React app is a bad idea because our application will lose all the React configurations and will not benefit from the CRA updates. Some solutions for ejecting our application include using packages like react-app-rewired or rewire. You can also use CRACO to eject your React application, but it needs you to install additional plugins.
  • How are you building React applications? It's time to move on from Create React App
    13 projects | dev.to | 12 Apr 2023
    So, instead of entirely managing these configuration files, teams took to utilizing tools such as Craco to override configurations. These tools also come with their limitations: they were not updated as quickly as CRA, so there was always a lag in implementing new features, and they added an extra layer of complexity to existing tools through overrides and additional tools.
  • How to start a React Project in 2023
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2023
    I am not much of a fan of CRA myself but I am very much glad that https://craco.js.org exists - so far it's handled my needs for tweaking CRA behaviour in situations where "eject" didn't seem like a good route to take.

    Mostly tbh to stop the freaking thing spawning inotify watchers for the entire contents of node_modules - I don't mind having to do a manual restart when I've changed dependencies and I definitely -do- mind having it eat a shedload of my user's inotify kernel allocation. (I know you can up the allocation, that's not the point, why are you on my lawn? :)

  • How can I make my CRA server start up quicker?
    5 projects | /r/reactjs | 9 Feb 2023
  • How to bypass mobile app review thanks to Capacitor, Ionic, and micro frontends 🤯
    10 projects | dev.to | 23 Jan 2023
    As I mentioned, in our case, the perfect tool for this job is CRACO. It will let us simply overwrite CRA’s configuration without ejecting.
  • Top packages for React Development
    10 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2023
    Create react app + Craco
  • Working with Ant Design in React - Customization
    3 projects | /r/reactjs | 22 Oct 2022
    Or I could use Craco with Craco-less. Craco 6+ doesn't work with 5+ versions of react-scripts. I know I could use yarn instead of NPM which doesn't stop the installation of craco, but it can't be the solution. We can't scrap the project and restart. Further, Craco 7-alpha installs but then craco-less doesn't.
  • CRA vs Parcel
    6 projects | dev.to | 5 Sep 2022
    If you want to customize the webpack configuration, you either need to eject, or to work against the package (with yarn patch, forking react-scripts, or using CRACO which is the easiest). But none of them are officially maintained by the CRA team.
  • how to find open source projects
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 25 Aug 2022
    https://github.com/dilanx/craco is looking for contributors.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing create-react-app and craco you can also consider the following projects:

react-app-rewired - Override create-react-app webpack configs without ejecting

webpack - A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.

Next.js - The React Framework

vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

nx - Smart Monorepos · Fast CI

nwb - A toolkit for React, Preact, Inferno & vanilla JS apps, React libraries and other npm modules for the web, with no configuration (until you need it)

react-boilerplate - :fire: A highly scalable, offline-first foundation with the best developer experience and a focus on performance and best practices.

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

turborepo - Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turborepo and Turbopack. [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/turbo]

customize-cra - Override webpack configurations for create-react-app 2.0