webpack-nexus 🐨: my first open source project

One year ago I was wondering how things like create-react-app are being created. In May of this year I decided I should try to create my own "create-react-app" to learn about CLIs.

So, after 2 months of research and development I have finished my own CLI and I want to share this with you.

webpack-nexus 🐨: GiancarlosIO/webpack-nexus

Why did I create my own CLI?

I created this because I want to learn how to build something like create-react-app/next.js. I'm not trying to compete with the big current CLIs/boilerplates.

I know it's not better than create-react-app or next.js but I made this to supply my custom requirements about webpack and vscode configurations. Maybe it will do the same for you.

Features

• Webpack: Dev and Prod configurations inspired by the awesome work of react-boilerplate 🔨
• Babel: ES6/ES7, jsx and more plugins configured for dev and production mode. ⚛️
• Styling with styled-components 💅
• Typing with typescript and eslint ✔️
• Auto formatter with prettier 🔄
• vscode configured to work with eslint + typescript + prettier 💙
• React-apollo: coming soon...
• Jest: coming soon...
• Husky + lint-staged: coming soon...
• webpack-nexus.js: file to configure/override the actual webpack/babel configuration, coming soon...
• Setup/configurations for atom and sublime, coming soon...

What is the difference with other projects like create-react-app/react-boilerplate/next.js?

It has a lot of specific configurations used in all of my side-projects, so maybe you are good using CRA or NEXTJS.

I tested create-react-app and I think it is awesome but I don't like the way it works.

• You need to eject to add your own webpack or babel plugins.
• You need to eject to configure/add prettier/eslint rules.
• If you have lint errors it will throw an error. Sometimes I just want to test some edge cases. webpack-nexus doesn't throw an error because eslint is not configured inside webpack, it is just used to lint the files in vscode.
• It doesn't have support for multi-entries. It can be configured for that, but again, you need to eject.
• It has no styled-components installed.
• It has no apollo graphql configured. Graphql is what I always use in my projects.
• It has no react-hot-loader configured.

react-boilerplate? I really like that, but I just wanted a simple CLI to scaffold my projects and not to clone a repository every time.

And... It is not comparable with next.js because it is not a react framework... but maybe in the future it can be? 🤔

I hope this project helps you to scaffold your next big side project. 😊

You can see the docs here: GiancarlosIO/webpack-nexus

And... that's it. Thank you for reading!!!