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Replacing Create React App with the Next.js CLI

How dare you make a jab at Create React App!?

Firstly, Create React App is good. But it's a very rigid CLI, primarily designed for projects that require very little to no configuration. This makes it great for beginners and simple projects but unfortunately, this means that it's pretty non-extensible. Despite the involvement from big names and a ton of great devs, it has left me wanting a much better developer experience with a lot more polish when it comes to hot reloading, babel configuration, webpack configuration, etc. It's definitely simple and good, but not amazing.

Now, compare that experience to Next.js which for starters has a much larger team behind it provided by a world-class company (Vercel) who are all financially dedicated to making it the best DX you could imagine to build any React application. Next.js is the 💣-diggity. It has amazing docs, great support, can grow with your requirements into SSR or static site generation, etc.

So why

miguel-perez

/**
 * Replace jQuery's $.fn.ready() function with a mod exec
 *
 * Sites that make heavy use of the $(document).ready function
 * are generally incompatable with asynchrounous content. The
 * the $.fn.ready function only runs once. This script replaces
 * the ready function with a module execution controller that
 * let's us register functions and execute all of the functions
 * as we need them. This is useful after HTML gets injected on the
 * page and we want to rebind functionally to the new content.