I've waited 6 years for this...

Vite for the win

I gotta say Theo, your ads are just _chef's kiss_. The ratio of ones I've clicked on to learn more (or actually use) vs ones I wasn't interested in... is simply phenomenal. No other channel or website hits so many relevant-to-me ads as you do. I actually look forward to each new video (even though I've already watched them all live) just to see what new ad you'll bring us.

I completely agree with Theo in this, in our prod web app, created in 2021 we are using CRA as a base for the app. Last month I spent around 15 working days for enabling HMR in our app because of some edge cases that we have in dev env. Messing with webpack was a pain in the a** and took me most of the time. Bad experience and I think it was avoidable if we would go with something like Vite or something else then.

At my current position, I have some of the most subject matter expertise when it comes to front end web projects and react. I noticed that a lot of of my coworkers and managers went to go use creative react app when they wanted to boot strap or react project. I had to tell them, “it’s been deprecated for a while and there’s newer ways to do it like Vite” it was annoying that I had to tell them that it was deprecated in the first place. And of course, it was not officially deprecated… even though it has those notices at the top of the website

12:20 CRA used to be a playground where React team would play on "react as it should be" setup with all bells and whistles that they saw as desirable. Now this role is played by Next unfortunately :(

I think I’ve discovered what makes me instantly watch every vid you drop. I fkn love your rants, about whatever it is at the time of the video 😂

I'm old enough to remember having to pipe together tsc and babel (sometimes with gulp) and also the old craco package. Madness. I don't miss having Webpack on my CV

The first I did when I arrived at my current company 2 years ago was to push reeeeeally hard to abandon CRA and move to Vite on our 20 frontend apps. Mission succeeded, everyone happy, bonus raise in the pocket.

CRA had jest and CSS modules out of the box

Cutting edge, thanks again! I learn so much with these.