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create-next-app
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create-next-app
This package includes the global command for creating Next.js applications.
Please refer to its documentation:
- Setup – How to create a new Next.js application.
- Documentation – How to develop Next.js applications.
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create-react-app
Create React App is a similar tool for bootstrapping React applications. It provides a default project structure, configuration, and scripts for building React applications. While create-next-app is tailored for Next.js, which includes server-side rendering and static site generation, Create React App is focused on client-side rendering.
vue-cli
Vue CLI is a command-line tool for scaffolding Vue.js projects. It offers a similar experience to create-next-app but for Vue.js applications. Vue CLI provides a range of templates and plugins to customize the project setup, whereas create-next-app is specifically designed for Next.js.
angular-cli
Angular CLI is a command-line interface for Angular applications. It helps in setting up a new Angular project with a default configuration, similar to create-next-app for Next.js. Angular CLI includes features like code generation, testing, and deployment, tailored for Angular applications.
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Create Next.js-powered React apps with one command
The npm package create-next-app receives a total of 5,920,332 weekly downloads. As such, create-next-app popularity was classified as popular.
We found that create-next-app demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 19 Aug 2019
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