create-react-app VS vue-cli

Setting up a ReactJS app can be done using different methods. Developers have various options ranging from using create React App (CRA), using Vite, or any other method they are familiar with. Once the ReactJS app is integrated, installing Tailwind CSS as a dev dependency is pretty straight forward. The guide provided in the Tailwind CSS documentation is easy to read and quick to understand let’s break down the steps.

My website's previous iteration was built in 2021. It was bootstrapped using (the now deprecated) Create React App and it took approximately 2 months to build. The home page included a bunch of photos that I had taken myself of my desk and keyboard as background for several sections and it included most of the information on the website. In the middle of the page I put the SkillsTerminal (which also features in the current version), which provided visitors with a familiar and mobile-ready UI which included my tech skills, aswell as a bit of information on my work and project history.

Pleased to say I had a meaningful hand in this :) As some background, this finally happened because:

- React 19 broke CRA

- I griped about it loudly on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/acemarke.dev/post/3lggg6pk7g22o) and that started a long debate

- I filed an umbrella issue describing the specific breakage and recommending an actual official deprecation announcement (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/17004)

- The React team finally took action to fix the CRA breakage, then wrote the blog post, updated the setup docs page, and redid the docs SEO to get Google to stop showing the legacy docs as a search result.

So, kudos to the React team for making meaningful changes here!

(It's not _exactly_ what I was hoping for, and I gave them some additional review feedback that they didn't include, but gotta give credit for the actual changes and steps forward!)

Create React App should not be used because it is no longer maintained. Here is its GitHub repro: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/commits/main/ . It has had very few updates since July 2022. This is bad because it needs constant updates because it depends on a large number of packages and those packages are constantly releasing security updates.

Not so fast, though. V0 uses shadcn, which isn’t fully compatible with Create React App.

Don’t use Create React App: It’s outdated, slow, and lacks extensibility.

The application was created with Create React App, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. I separated the different moving parts of the application and put them into the following React components.

1. Run a Final Test: Make sure your app works as expected locally by running: npm run dev If it was created with Vite. npm run start If it was created with Create-React-App.

Recently, a ticket was added to our sprint with the goal of reducing packages with critical and high vulnerabilities in a legacy project. The task involved migrating a Vue 2 project using Vue CLI as the build tool to Vite.

Ecosystem: Vue's ecosystem is smaller than React's but rapidly growing. The Vue CLI provides a robust tool for project scaffolding and build configuration.

Immerse yourself in the official Vue CLI documentation for a deeper understanding.

Security would be a useful benefit/section to add to this post:

A.) If maintainers of your dependencies edited an existing version.

B.) If your dependencies did not pin their dependencies.

For instance, if you installed vue-cli in May of last year from NPM with --prefer-offline (basically the same as checking in your node_modules), you were fine. But because vue-cli doesn't pin its dependencies ("node-ipc"), installing fresh/online would create WITH-LOVE-FROM-AMERICA.txt on your desktop [1], which was at the very least a scare, but for some, very problematic.

[1] https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/issues/7054

Vue CLI documentation: https://cli.vuejs.org/

An interesting fact is that this dependency was used in vue-cli.

Vue CLI 3

Open issue for half a year https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/issues/7234

Vue CLI (command-line interface), which is used to install and create the main Vue framework libraries and third-party plugins.

Is there a reason you've used the old Vue CLI though, with webpack and babel?Imho you're missing a lot not using Vite... npm init vue@latest (create-vue) is the recommended way to scaffold a new Vue app, Vue CLI is in Maintenance Mode