grapheme-splitter VS create-react-app

Do note that if you're using an international language, you might want to check out Grapheme Splitter to divide strings into individual user perceived characters, as opposed to computer perceived characters. Since our text is in English, it'd just add unnecessary complication and an extra step to our project so I'm not adding it in :)

Splitting by grapheme clusters (or the characters the user actually sees): JS doesn't support this natively, so you'll need a library like grapheme-splitter. There's a Stage-4 proposal in the works, though: Intl.Segmenter:

Exactly, and emoji are outside the BMP, so it's not exactly an edge case, but the norm where two code units (UTF-16 double-bytes) are used to make one code point (Unicode character).

And it gets even worse, when you consider that for many purposes you're not even interested in code points but in graphemes -- e.g. a single visible emoji might actually be a combination of 5 code points, represented by 8 UTF-8 code units, taking up 16 bytes.

If you want to split a string by graphemes, you can either use the main dedicated library for it [3], or the relatively new API Intl.Segmenter [4] which is in Chrome and Safari, but still hasn't made it to Firefox [5].

[1] https://blog.jonnew.com/posts/poo-dot-length-equals-two

[2] https://www.contentful.com/blog/2016/12/06/unicode-javascrip...

[3] https://github.com/orling/grapheme-splitter

[4] https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-segmenter

[5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423593

You’ll need a dependent package called GraphemeSplitter which is required if your font contains multi-byte characters like for ex. Hindi. The package is included in the above repo but it was created by orling.

Create React App (CRA) abstracts away the complexity of configuring Webpack, Babel, and other build tools, allowing developers to focus on writing React code. It includes features such as hot module reloading for efficient development.

Immerse yourself in the official Create React App documentation for a deeper understanding.

Create React App (https://create-react-app.dev/)

- And ofc, there are some templates/frameworks that bring something of that together (https://create-react-app.dev/; maybe https://vitejs.dev/) - google for templates.

I recommend finding some friend with modern experience or at least some youtube tutorials or at least some learning course. That would help you to catch up on the best way to bootstrap your first project. Then you can practice.

What's the connection?

Also, take a look at this response from 2021: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/discussions/117...

Create React App Documentation

Inside the react-tutorial-app folder, to create a new React project runs the following command using create-react-appand for more details on how create-react-app works and other staff, please visit the official website: https://create-react-app.dev/

Before we embark on our journey, make sure you have React installed and a React project set up. If not, fear not! Create React App is your trusty sidekick for a quick start.