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I have a personal web app that I wrote in react 16 with babel set up by createReactApp directly from the react docs. it’s been stuck with a list of features I w
by socalgal2 1y ago
I have a personal web app that I wrote in react 16 with babel set up by createReactApp directly from the react docs. it’s been stuck with a list of features I want to add in my spare time but all 3 of those have bitrotted out so that in my minor spare time over the last 2 years or so, instead of being able to add some feature, I spend 2 to 3 hours trying to update it to the latest, fail, and no progress is made.
my latest attempt was to see if one of the LLMs could do it. nope.
I’ve thought about starting from scratch but don’t have the time
- rckt 1y agoYeah. The frontend world is a mess. I also faced similar issue with my personal website. Now I just keep my packages versions up to date and do any breaking changes updates as soon as possible. It's annoying, but it's better this way than having to re-write/refactor the whole thing every time.
- DecoySalamander 1y agoI think you will have a much better time if you generate a new, empty React project with Vite and just drop your existing components into it. I almost suggested not updating at all and keeping your dependencies as they are, but createReactApp was too much of a bloated mess even in its heyday.