How To Create A React App in 2025

In this video CJ talks about what to use to replace create-react-app now that it is deprecated. He talks about the kinds of apps you might be building and gives some opinions on what to use. He also shows how to migrate off of create-react-app to vite. 00:00 intro 00:45 drop-in replacement for create-react-app 02:29 tour of Vite + React app 05:03 how to migrate is later in the video 05:26 types of React apps 05:48 SSG with Astro 06:17 content driven website examples 09:55 astro simple app 10:25 tour of astro app 11:18 astro demo 15:16 SPA - heavy client rendered apps 17:11 SPA routing libraries 18:39 SPA data loading 20:09 SSR - dynamic, on-demand generated apps 23:55 hybrid apps 25:36 migrating from CRA 27:43 excalidraw vite migration example 30:52 full vite migration example 39:14 conclusions / takeaways 40:08 thanks 🔥 Be the ~14,700th person to join our super tasty newsletter bit.ly/syntax_snackpack All links available at https://syntax.fm/870 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: https://x.com/syntaxfm Scott: https://x.com/stolinski Wes: https://x.com/wesbos CJ: https://x.com/CodingGarden Randy: https://www.youtube.com/@randyrektor http://www.syntax.fm Brought to you by Sentry.io #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #javascript #syntax #syntaxfm #webdev #reactjs #build