react.dev VS madatdata

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

You might like what we're building with Seafowl [0], which is an open-source, single binary database you can deploy to the edge for executing cache-friendly queries (so e.g. you can deploy to fly.io free tier, load your data into it, and put Cloudflare in front of it to cache query results like any other HTTP response).

Here's an example [1] multi-page site with Next.js and Seafowl.

[0] https://seafowl.io/docs/getting-started/introduction

[1] https://github.com/splitgraph/madatdata/tree/main/examples/r...

If you're interested, this is the "absolute minimum" React project I was able to create, using `esbuild` (see `dev.mjs`) and some .html files. [0] It's a sub-package in a larger workspace, so there is some complexity inherited from the monorepo in terms of tsconfig.json and dependency management, but you can ignore that; the esbuild part was pleasantly simple to implement, and it pretty much "just works," such that each file in `www` is an entrypoint with one corresponding script from `pages/` that calls `createRoot(container).render()`.

[0] https://github.com/splitgraph/madatdata/tree/main/packages/t...