create-react-app VS Next.js

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

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create-react-app Next.js
575 2,041
101,853 120,572
0.2% 1.4%
1.5 10.0
9 days ago about 10 hours ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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 2024-04-10.

Next.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Next.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing create-react-app and Next.js you can also consider the following projects:

craco - Create React App Configuration Override, an easy and comprehensible configuration layer for Create React App.

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

Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

nx - Smart Monorepos · Fast CI

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

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)

MERN - ⛔️ DEPRECATED - Boilerplate for getting started with MERN stack

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

Angular - Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀

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]

fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js