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Setting up React + TypeScript + webpack app from scratch without create-react-app

Aleksei Berezkin on June 14, 2021

Artwork: https://code-art.pictures/ Code on artwork: React JS Why bother if there is create-react-app? Good question! In fact, if you ar...
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Daniel Tincu

Great resource!

Just wanted to make a small addition regarding the build script:

"NODE_ENV=production webpack"
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On windows, this doesn't work. Replacing it with:

"SET NODE_ENV=production & webpack"
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will make it work on windows.

Cheers :)

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Aleksei Berezkin

Thanks, added a different fragment for Windows

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Simon Taylor

@alekseiberezkin awesome article, thankyou!

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Yoel Duran

Great job. congrats

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Martin Dwyer

Excellent resource! Thanks for keeping it up to date!

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JuanJo Yanes

great.

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Vadim Ryabov

12.1 - compilerOptions.ta*R*get 😉

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Aleksei Berezkin

Thx, fixed

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Miguel Roche

@alekseiberezkin is there any chance of changing webpack for esbuild? thanks for the article

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Aleksei Berezkin

Thx for the suggestion. You are right, esbuild is not more an “emerging” tool but a comprehensive alternative. Unfortunately I can't give any estimate when I'm able to look at it closely because right now I'm not working in frontend fulltime. However if I decide writing about something here, that'd be among the first topics to consider.

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Ivan gsp

Thanks @alekseiberezkin for the tutorial, it was really helpful but I think you missed to add@types/react and @types/react-dom

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Aleksei Berezkin

Thank you so much, updated the post

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Vishal Raj

@alekseiberezkin Thank you for the article. Will definitely try this. Meanwhile, I have a similar article, that you might like - React from scratch

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Aleksei Berezkin

Thanks for your link. Will keep it in mind if I need Babel.

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Aleksandr Kobelev • Edited

Please add

meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"
to index.html

I spent a lot of time trying to understand why 'min-width' doesn’t work for me.