Create React App

Create React App, used by most React developers, was sunset in February 2025, forcing migrations to alternative tooling. This creates significant disruption and requires developers to rebuild their setup and dependency chains, generating migration headaches.

Create React App presents a false choice: either stick 100% with the preset or completely eject and lose all updates. It lacks support for server-side rendering and static site generation, creating significant limitations for production applications. The eject mechanism is inflexible and unforgiving.

React applications suffer from unnecessary re-renders, large bundle sizes, slow initial page loads, memory leaks, and poor mobile performance. These issues are partly inherent to client-side SPAs lacking server-side rendering or static site generation.