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react-scripts
This package includes scripts and configuration used by Create React App.
Please refer to its documentation:
- Getting Started – How to create a new app.
- User Guide – How to develop apps bootstrapped with Create React App.
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parcel-bundler
Parcel is a web application bundler that offers a similar zero-configuration experience to react-scripts but with a different approach to bundling and a focus on speed and simplicity.
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Webpack is a powerful module bundler that can be used for React applications. Unlike react-scripts, it requires manual configuration, but it offers a high degree of customization and plugin support.
vite
Vite is a build tool that significantly improves the frontend development experience. It's similar to react-scripts in providing a development server and build process, but it leverages native ES modules and is known for its fast cold server start.
snowpack
Snowpack is a modern build tool for faster web development. It's comparable to react-scripts but uses a different approach, focusing on unbundled development and faster rebuilds with ESM (ES Module) support.
FAQs
Configuration and scripts for Create React App.
The npm package react-scripts receives a total of 1,562,777 weekly downloads. As such, react-scripts popularity was classified as popular.
We found that react-scripts demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 14 Oct 2018
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