I love React, but I feel there are two kinds of developers: the ones who understand it and others who don't. The "standard" way of learning and doing React is wrong: bootstrapping an app with CRA and just building it to create a SPA is bad as OP pointed out.
I have been working with React for like 5 years and I can tell you I have created some fast and performant JAMstacks, just look how successful Gatsby.js and Next.js have become...
Without CRA, we have to handle webpack manually. Fortunately the webpack config which was created by CRA is still adequate for my project. However, learning webpack, will be needed eventually.
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I love React, but I feel there are two kinds of developers: the ones who understand it and others who don't. The "standard" way of learning and doing React is wrong: bootstrapping an app with
CRAand just building it to create a SPA is bad as OP pointed out.I have been working with React for like 5 years and I can tell you I have created some fast and performant JAMstacks, just look how successful Gatsby.js and Next.js have become...
Without CRA, we have to handle webpack manually. Fortunately the webpack config which was created by CRA is still adequate for my project. However, learning webpack, will be needed eventually.