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create-react-app
JavaScript2016–2026
react / create-react-app

create-react-app

Set up a modern web app by running one command.

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Set up a modern web app by running one command.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year165 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-07-22 16:34:33 UTC to 2026-03-14 01:27:45 UTC.

010203040502016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 37 mentions; 8 submissions, 29 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 45 mentions; 3 submissions, 42 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 26 mentions; 5 submissions, 21 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 19 mentions; 6 submissions, 13 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 3 submissions, 12 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC37829
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC45342
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC26521
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC19613
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15312
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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rices·Dec 7, 2018
Disclaimer: I'm a frontend/fullstack dev. One of the methods I use is browsing other sites and taking inspiration. You can even inspect their elements if you'd like to see how they the style (don't copy paste!). Other suggestions: - Team up with someone with some ui skills - Use a css framework: https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks - Choose a color scheme and add some margin and padding to everything and stick to the scheme. - React component libraries are becoming much more general purpose and easier to use. If you're up to sinking a few hours into it, try create-react-app (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app) and then use a react component library like material ui (https://github.com/mui-org/material-ui)
In Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?
alexanderisora·Oct 4, 2018
Hey! I'm Alex. I've created a landing page generator for startups and side-projects. It produces HTML templates for export, so you can host it anywhere (GitHub Pages FTW). Unicorn Platform got 1050+ upvotes on Product Hunt btw. The product contains 2 independent repositories: 1) Templates 2) The generator 1) Templates are crafted with SCSS, PUG, and jQuery. Some may say that jQuery is an anachronism. But hell nope. jQuery is still a big time-saver when it comes to DOM manipulations. 2) The generator is made with ReactJS. I'm so grateful to https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app for saving tons of time with configuring the building. Authentication runs on Google Firebase. And I must say it's a blast! Setting it up took just a few hours - and that includes time for creating the Facebook dev entity and the Twitter dev application. Goo
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gle Firebase Auth takes care of duplicates as well. If your user signs up via email method using "john.doe@gmail.com" and then tries to sign up with a Facebook account attached to the same "john.doe@gmail.com" email, Google Firebase is smart enough to detect that and offer a user his initial method of authenticating. Pretty sweet. I used Paddle for payments. Paddle has nice API. All I need to validate whether a user is upgraded to Pro is to send one tiny cURL request. I tried to make the templates generation process as simple as I can. I have an independent .html file single component. When a user picks a component I just upload the .HTML file contents and inject it in the editor's DOM so user instantly sees what he will get after exporting. When a user wants to export a page I compose a single .HTML file which contains heading info, footer and the components HTML in between. I use vanilla PHP to compose the final .HTML file. It's a commercial product but there are some components that will allow you to create a website for a pet project for free. Without even signin up. I would appreciate any feedback.
In Show HN: Unicorn Platform – HTML landing page generator
ggregoire·Sep 2, 2018
I've reported 5 bugs about Flow and can list at least 10 other bugs reported by other people that I experience on a daily basis. Most of them have been upvoted by hundreds of people. Most of them have been opened 1 or 2 years ago. Most of them don't have a single reply from people working on Flow (or one of these: "yes I guess it's a valid point", "pull requests are welcome", "it's not a bug" , "we would have to rewrite a lot of stuff", without any follow-up). That's what really frustrates me about Flow after using it for many years. We shouldn't have to rewrite valid code, write unreadable workarounds or add // $FlowFixMe annotations to avoid Flow's issues. I lead a small team of junior developers to whom I presented Flow. We now use it everywhere. But they often experience difficulties when they try to type their code. When I see what b
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locks them, my answer is too often "oh yeah, it's a bug in Flow. There is an issue about it on GitHub opened in 2016". I'm right now waiting for this https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/4837 to be merged to move all my projects to TS. Edit: and I don't blame the devs working on Flow. I guess it's more a priority issue at Facebook. Or maybe they just gave up on the community support since TS is too ahead.
In TypeScript at Google
Vinnl·Sep 2, 2018
Although it's clear that Facebook's libraries, among which React, favour Flow, there's strong community demand for TypeScript even around React. Thus, the type definitions that are available for React are excellent, Redux even includes its type definitions natively, and most of the large tools in the React ecosystem work pretty well with TypeScript. The main large project you're likely to use that does not really play well with TypeScript yet is create-react-app. There's a TypeScript fork [1] which works reasonably well, but "reasonable" is not really what you'd hope. That said, the strong community push means that they're at least considering it. [2] [1] https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript [2] https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/2815
In TypeScript at Google

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