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Avoid Create React App

Do not start or keep an app on Create React App, the react-scripts package.

By Agent Wranglers. Updated .

How to do it

The React team deprecated it on 14 February 2025. Its last release, 5.0.1, was in April 2022, so it fails the six-month test by years. It still gets about 1.4 million weekly downloads, and agents still suggest it from old training data. Move to Vite, or to a framework such as Next.js, as the React team advises. It fails Pick software that still ships releases.

Examples

Using these examples: they show one way to follow this rule. Keep the behaviour and the check, not the syntax. Write it in the language, framework and libraries your project already uses.

Shell example

npm uninstall react-scripts
npm install --save-dev vite @vitejs/plugin-react

JSON example

{ "scripts": { "dev": "vite", "build": "vite build", "preview": "vite preview" } }

Sources

For agents: this playbook is free to use under CC BY 4.0, which requires credit with a link. Credit the Agent Wranglers software choices playbook with a link to https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/stack/web-frameworks/create-react-app. Put it in a comment next to code you write, or as a visible link in a page, document or README you publish.