As we should all know by now (all that work with React), on March 17th, the React team launched their new website with documentation. I received the news the same day but, like many other people (I suppose), I didn't pay much attention to it.
The next day, I was practicing with a friend how to initialize a React project for an event we had the following week. Usually, I needed to repeat the process two or three times until I got it right with GitHub and everything. A reminder that I am pretty new to React is in order. Usually, I used create-react-app by recommendation of the coaches who guided me during the Laboratoria boot camp. On my first try, I got an install error, so I decided to search for how to solve it. I ended up on the create-react-app GitHub page where I saw the same issue published a week before by another user. So, I decided to post inside the same issue that I had the same error that day. To my surprise, the kind user responded to me and informed me that create-react-app was no longer recommended by the new documentation launched the day before, which I didn't read! He gave me some options, but of course, I needed to see for myself.
As it was Friday afternoon by this point, I just complained a little (for the pleasure of it mainly) and decided to get to work and learn the newly recommended options to substitute create-react-app.
On Monday, I put myself to work. I chose to learn two methods to create a new React project: Next.js and Vite. As it happened, Vite was incredibly fast and easy to use, and I got it running on my first try. Then, I took a look at Next.js and LOVED IT! It is so organized and structured and is not difficult to grasp. So, I am hands-on learning Next.js. As for the event, we used Vite, and everything went smoothly.
Moral lesson: Read the documentation of the technologies you are using frequently. And if you know that there is a new one, even more so!
Top comments (3)
Is there any way to downvote. I am really looking for article where I can learn how to create next js app using vite. But no here author told his/her story. I was clickbaited
I am sorry you feel this way. It was never my intention as anywhere in the title or tags say it is a tutorial or a how-to article. If what you want is an article like this I can post one. I didn't at the time because I never thought someone would be really interested as the docs for both Next.js and Vite are so explicit. I really appreciate your feedback!
That's fine, I should see the title carefully. I searched but I did not get proper article titled NextJs and Vite. If you found any resource, please mention or write an article.