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Saswata Mukherjee for GDSC KIIT

Posted on Jun 11, 2020

Discuss: What's your preferred way of creating a React app?

#discuss #javascript #react #webdev

Whenever I start a new React project I mostly use to create-react-app. But I've seen a lot of people default to Gatsby or Next.js.

If you do use something other than cra what is your motivation and what tools make your life easier? Any best practices you think React devs should follow while using them?

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Saurabh Sharma • Jun 11 '20

Create-react-app: if its a admin dashboard, or something where SEO doesn't matter
Next.js: If SEO matters, and content is dynamic too, you need performance, code splitting and Server side rendering
Gatsby: If content is static and SEO matters

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