Create Esbuild App / esbuild-scripts
An extremely fast create-react-app replacement.
What is it?
create-esbuild-app
is a wrapper around create-react-app
while esbuild-scripts
is a react-scripts
compatible CLI which can be dropped in as a replacement. They use the toolchain and development experience already provided by the Create React App ecosystem but provide an faster experience by abstracting esbuild as a bundler and using native esbuild plugins for speed.
esbuild-scripts
in most cases should be a drop in replacement for react-scripts
.
Creating an App
yarn create @lukesheard/esbuild-app my-app
cd my-app
yarn start
If you've previously installed create-esbuild-app
globally you can run yarn global remove create-esbuild-app
to remove it - this will ensure that you always use the latest version when creating a new app.
Note: The API of create-esbuild-app
mirrors that of create-react-app
but will default the template of a new app to TypeScript. However if you want to use a custom template you can do so by supplying a --template
argument like so
yarn create @lukesheard/esbuild-app my-app --template my-template
Supplying an empty template will default to the JavaScript template from create-react-app
. This is because in most instances I've noticed users default to this template anyway - so I wanted to abstract this in a way which made it simple to pick convetional defaults.
For more documentation on creating an App refer to the Create React App documentation.