Meta has announced the discontinuation of Create React App, a tool designed to facilitate configuring React apps due to various technical limitations that make maintenance difficult. Starting a React app requires setting up several basic tools such as JSX, linting, and hot reloading, which can pose challenges for new developers. In 2016, the Meta team created Create React App to consolidate all these tools into a single package.
However, the ease of getting started comes with trade-offs in terms of technical limitations, particularly in terms of using production-level features. Create React App does not include essential features such as routing, data fetching, and code splitting, requiring developers to add them manually later on. With the evolving landscape of React frameworks, several new frameworks like Next.js, React Router, and Expo have emerged to address similar issues, prompting the React team to relegate Create React App to a deprecated status and recommend using these newer frameworks for new app development.
Although Create React App can still be used and updated to work with the latest React 19 version, it will no longer receive further development.
TLDR: Create React App is being phased out in favor of newer frameworks due to its technical limitations and the emergence of more advanced tools in the React ecosystem.
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