Basic Setup for React Projects in 2020

I’ve seen a lot of people using project initialisation tools to create their new React projects over the years, in particular create-react-app. While I do see there are some benefits to these tools (in particular for newcomers), these tools do have their disadvantages.

I cloned a repository the other day which was using create-react-app, and an npm i installed over 2000 packages! This is a hell of a lot to download just to be able to run some code locally. Yes, these packages will be cached, but if you take into account the time it takes for one dev, multiply that across a team of devs (also accounting for devs trashing their local repos and re-cloning), this could be a reasonable bit of time lost. This time is often lost at times where developers are feeling most productive too.

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