Create React App is awesome, but can't shake the feeling the foundation is thousands of brittle packages with incredibly complex configuration (especially all the babel and webpack extensions)
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The incentives are plain: if they were to tell you up-front what they really cost, they would be less attractive. So the entire industry furiously externalises costs to others, disproportionately impacting those who can least afford to pay.
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To be crystal clear: CRA is only the most popular of this class, but with a (thankfully growing) set of exceptions (Sapper, Polymer PSK, Ionic PWA toolkit, NG8+Ivy CLI, certain Vue CLI configs) the cohort is net-negative. It *is* actually better for teams to build their own.
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