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create-river-build-app
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This package is used to scaffold a new React River app.
It will run create-vite to scaffold the project using react-ts template.
Then, it will install the necessary dependencies: @river-build/sdk and @river-build/react-sdk.
Finally, it will add the vite-plugin-node-polyfills to the vite.config.ts file to ensure compatibility with Node.js native modules that are used by the River SDK.
You can use your preferred package manager to run the command.
Example using yarn:
yarn create river-build-app
This will create a new React River app in the current directory.
If you want to create a new app in a different directory, you can specify the directory name as an argument:
yarn create river-build-app my-app
FAQs
This package is used to scaffold a new React River app.
We found that create-river-build-app demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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