Create Root App

An opinionated CLI for bootstrapping a React application with essential tools and structure for modern web development. With create-root-app, you can set up a React project with a strong foundation, leveraging best practices and streamlined tooling.

Features

• Environment Setup: Choose between CRA (Vite support coming soon) to kickstart your React environment.
• TypeScript: For creating type-safe applications, ensuring better tooling, and reducing runtime errors.
• TailwindCSS: A utility-first CSS framework that allows rapid UI development with a streamlined approach to styling.
• Recoil: For state management, providing a lightweight and flexible solution (planned switch to Zustand in the future).
• Axios: For simplifying API requests with a customizable fetch client.
• React Query: Enhances data fetching and caching, minimizes redundant requests, and simplifies asynchronous operations in React.
• React Router: Handles routing and navigation efficiently, making it easy to build multi-page applications.

Alongside these, create-root-app includes a recommended structure for building scalable applications.

Getting Started

1. Install create-root-app Globally

npm install -g create-root-app

2. Initialize a New Project

Use the following command to create a new React app:

create-root-app init [app-name]

Replace [app-name] with your desired project name. After running this command, select a template to start with.

Documentation & Resources

For more in-depth guidance on the tools and patterns used in create-root-app, refer to the following resources:

• React Documentation
• TypeScript Documentation
• TailwindCSS Documentation
• Recoil Documentation
• Axios Documentation
• React Query Documentation
• React Router Documentation

Future Plans

• Vite Support: A Vite-based template option will be added soon for faster builds and optimized development workflows.
• State Management: Planned replacement of Recoil with Zustand for a more flexible and powerful state management solution.

Contributing

We welcome contributions to improve create-root-app. If you have suggestions or find issues, feel free to open a pull request or file an issue.