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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.

122Distinct people
165Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
103.2KGitHub stars
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What it is

Set up a modern web app by running one command.

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Where it is used

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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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Mentions over time

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.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
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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> Does anyone who knows enough JavaScript point me in the right direction about it. I find all this very confusing. There isn't a straight forward solution, but the closest for me is the combination of using a transpiler (Babel), and a bundler (Webpack). A common criticism on node/javascript projects is the boiler plate setup required. As far as I know, there isn't an IDE that takes care of doing this part for you, where your experience developing outside of the web might (I like to think it akin to starting a project from scratch with C++, gcc, and make). Some larger projects, do have scripts that do a lot of boiler plate for you, such as Create-React-App. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app but that is for a specific use case.
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