I recently wrote a React app without using the “create-react-app” tool… just by writing JavaScript code, later TypeScript, and bundling it with Rollup.js.
Doing things this way shows you that the tooling doesn’t have to be complicated. I assume that there are very good reasons why the tooling is complicated—stuff like code splitting, modular CSS, etc. If you’re writing pure JS React and putting the CSS elsewhere, you can squeak by with fairly simple tools.
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I recently wrote a React app without using the “create-react-app” tool… just by writing JavaScript code, later TypeScript, and bundling it with Rollup.js.
Doing things this way shows you that the tooling doesn’t have to be complicated. I assume that there are very good reasons why the tooling is complicated—stuff like code splitting, modular CSS, etc. If you’re writing pure JS React and putting the CSS elsewhere, you can squeak by with fairly simple tools.