cra-universal

Create React App Universal CLI

Create React App companion for universal app. No eject, zero config with customization, supports string and node stream API

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Features

• No eject needed!
• Zero config by default and customizable
• Server-side rendering for your SEO
• Code-splitting that works universally
• The core middleware is fully unit-tested
• Works alongside react-scripts, not as replacement

Prerequisites

• Node >= 14.17.5 LTS recommended
• npx is required

Installation

# Create new cra
create-react-app myapp
cd myapp

# Install new cra-universal
yarn add -D cra-universal

# Install peer dependency
yarn add @cra-express/core express@4.18.1

Existing Projects

# Install new cra-universal
yarn add -D cra-universal

# Install peer dependency
yarn add @cra-express/core express@4.18.1

# init custom server (optional)
yarn run cra-universal init

#This will copy ./templates/server into the current directory (it should be run on CRA client root)

Client code change

Please update your render method on src/index.js

// before
const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root'));
root.render(<App />);

// after
ReactDOM.hydrateRoot(document.getElementById('root'), <App />);

Development

# Start CRA client
npm start

## Start CRA server, then open http://localhost:3001 in your browser
npx cra-universal start

Production

# Change directory to your project root first, and run:
npx cra-universal build

# This command will build both client and server and put them into `./dist`
# Run locally:
# $ cd dist && npm i
# $ npm run serve

Deployment

1. First, follow the Production guide mentioned above.
2. Since the bundle used Webpack Node Externals, you need to run npm install --production on the copied /dist, but this time you don't need to install its devDependencies
3. Use process manager like PM2 to run your server, your run target is ./dist/server/bundle.js

Credit

• Create React App https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
• Thanks for https://github.com/ayroblu/ssr-create-react-app-v2 for the base!

Support

If you like this project, please kindly support it by becoming a patron at my Patreon page. Thanks!

Sponsors

• Stan Day (stan@auraside.com)

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License

MIT