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One thing to note about create-react-app is that nearly all, in fact almost literally all, of those dependencies are development tools. They are also a pretty “
by bfrydl 8y ago
One thing to note about create-react-app is that nearly all, in fact almost literally all, of those dependencies are development tools. They are also a pretty “normal” configuration of tools, based on standards rather than some custom framework.
This means that if you have a problem with create-react-app or it were to be abandoned, you could just get a different development tool and likely make zero changes to your actual code.
- _asummers 8y agoFor sure, I'm not necessarily commenting on this particular example, as I'm unfamiliar with the tooling brought in by that command, and don't use JS myself. It's more of a comment about software dependencies in general. I'm usually much more tolerant of development dependencies than production dependencies.