react.dev VS is-land

I mentioned this upthread, but the "official" deprecation notice is this comment from Dan Abramov in a GitHub issue: https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/pull/5487#issuecomment-...

That has resulted in some interesting github questions before although... it's nothing compared to Java

I found the docs confusing too. Thanks for the quotes; I went ahead and filed an issue here to hopefully get some clarity: https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/issues/6123

Not a huge thing especially if this is used for learning, but create react app is not the best for starting new react apps. I don't think you need to change anything right now here, but he is some context. If you end up starting a new project, I'd recommend VITE

Also see https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/issues/3896 and various online articles explaining it.

Then there's this crazy function https://github.com/reactjs/react.dev/issues/3896

Here’s a nice (and quite long) discussion about CRA and Vite, and for those who don’t want to read it all, here’s a comment from Dan Abramov regarding why CRA was created, what is it trying to solve, today’s challenges and its future.

Thank-you for reading, I hope you found this useful! Congratulations to the React team, they have done a great job with the docs. I know they are looking for feedback through their survey and issue tracker, but I’d also love to hear your thoughts on the new docs and let me know what your favourite features are in the comments below 👇

I would advise against using create-react-app in 2023. It still lives in the old docs because those won’t be updated, but the new docs have completely removed the recommendation of create-react-app. New Docs Discussion on downsides

> still relies on other frontend frameworks like Svelte or React.

It doesn't have to. You can use it without any frontend framework.

> So, what, exactly is Astro other than YACC like Vite?

Selling point of Astro is the partial / conditional hydration; they call it Island Architecture. This is not unique to Astro, though[1].

It also does some neat stuff with frontmatter [2].

The biggest turn-off for me though is that telemetry is ON by default and you need to manually switch it off.

[1]: https://github.com/11ty/is-land and https://github.com/ElMassimo/iles also offer Islands.

Check out: https://github.com/11ty/is-land

Mostly because of partial/conditional hydration. But you can achieve the same thing with is-land[1] on Rails as well.

[1]: https://github.com/11ty/is-land