How to contribute to Create React App — an extension guide

With 40k+ stars and growing in Github. Create React App is undoubtedly the first thing we will play with before shipping great react apps.

It recently moved from facebook-incubator to facebook repo in Github, check out the post below,

facebook/create-react-app

With a completely different design decisions like,

• No (minimal) flags or configuration
• Masking the configuration tools (like Webpack & Babel)
• Zero configuration Javascript (#0CJS).

facebook/create-react-app

This really helps the developers to focus more on writing react components, rather than getting stuck in adding/selecting plugins/modules to your build configuration.

But the above decisions made create-react-app more complicated.

Everything has to be simple. But making things simpler is harder.