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There are alternatives to create-react-app. In fact, there are alternatives to React.

• oldmanhorton 7y ago
  Have fun telling that to your boss
  • recursive 7y ago
    I rarely justify technical decisions to my boss, and when I do, they smile and nod.
    • bdcravens 7y ago
      I work in a similar environment, but I think it's fair to realize many do not.
    • hu3 7y ago
      Same. My boss doesn't micromanage technical decisions. Wouldn't work there otherwise.
  • michaelcampbell 7y ago
    Or the 25 people you work with across 4-8 different teams that finally settled on something that can allow people of different teams to move around without a lot of anguish.
  • karatestomp 7y ago
    Plus, pick the consensus option, any problems that come up are that option's fault. Fight for anything else, and everything's your fault. Even if it is actually better it can make you, personally, look worse.
    • bdcravens 7y ago
      "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"
• bdcravens 7y ago
  Of course - this issue isn't unique to create-react-app or React, most Javascript frameworks have a similar explosion of dependencies. A quick check of angular-cli and vue-cli shows that an empty project uses 870 and 816 dependencies respectively.