# Create React App

Command-line tool that creates React single-page apps with no build configuration to set up.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/create-react-app/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-22
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-22

## Record

### Links

- home: https://create-react-app.dev/
- repository: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
- docs: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started

### Identity

- status: discontinued
- maintainer: Facebook, Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: build-tool
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 14
- basedOn: react

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: static, local
- renderingModes: spa
- installMethod: npx create-react-app

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 5
- latestReleaseDate: 2022-04-12

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 103238
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 1437446
- contributors: 946
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 1429227
- dependentPackages: 45896

### Sources

- status: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- status: https://create-react-app.dev/ (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://create-react-app.dev/ (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/create-react-app (read 2026-10-22)
- urls: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-22)
- maintainer: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- category: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- basedOn: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/create-react-app (read 2026-10-22)
- runtime: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- installMethod: https://create-react-app.dev/docs/getting-started (read 2026-10-22)
- renderingModes: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- runsAs: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- runsAs: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- license: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-22)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-22)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/create-react-app/releases/latest (read 2026-10-22)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/create-react-app/releases/latest (read 2026-10-22)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/create-react-app (read 2026-10-22)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/react-scripts (read 2026-10-22)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/create-react-app (read 2026-10-22)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/create-react-app/contributors?anon=true&per_page=100 (read 2026-10-22)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/react-scripts (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/react-scripts (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Create React App is a command-line tool that creates React single-page apps with a preconfigured build setup. It is started with `npx create-react-app`. The production build produces static HTML, JavaScript and CSS files, so Node.js is needed on the development machine and not on the server.

## Worth knowing

The project's site and its README both call it deprecated, and the README describes it as in long-term stasis.

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