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Today, we’re deprecating Create React App for new apps, and encouraging existing apps to migrate to a framework. We’re also providing docs for when a framework isn’t a good fit for your project, or you prefer to start by building a framework. react.dev/blog/2025/02...

But was create react app supposed to be targeted at high performance production? I always saw it was the getting started for newbies.

In principle, we could solve these problems by essentially evolving Create React App into a framework. However, CRA currently has no active maintainers, and instead of creating a new framework, we've decided to recommend one of the existing frameworks that solve these problems already.

All the frameworks we recommend support client-side rendering (CSR) and single-page apps SPAs. For existing apps, we've provided links to guides to help you migrate to a SPA using a framework. react.dev/blog/2025/02...

If your app has unusual constraints, or you prefer to solve these problems by building your own framework, or you just want to learn how React works from scratch, we've added new docs for building a React framework: react.dev/learn/buildi...