Yeah, the React team has really tried to avoid "blessing" any specific tools or approaches, for several reasons. Facebook uses React in certain ways that are d

Yeah, the React team has really tried to avoid "blessing" any specific tools or approaches, for several reasons. Facebook uses React in certain ways that are different than the community, and the community is doing a lot of different things anyway. CRA helps with getting started by providing an opinionated build setup, but leaves the entire rest of the application structure up to you. Sounds like you're looking for something more on top of that. I think I vaguely tossed out an idea of "CRA templates" on Twitter not too long ago, where maybe in addition to telling CRA what version of `react-scripts` you want to use, you could also give it a template package name. That way, you could specify something like `--template simple-react-redux` or `--template my-react-router-semantic-ui-setup` or something. There's actually a pretty similar issue with Redux too (and I say that as a Redux maintainer). I opened up an issue a while back to get ideas for what a better starting experience with Redux might look like: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/2295 https://github.com/reactjs/redux/issues/2295 .