Create React App vs. NextJS vs. Vite

In this video I give my opinions on different tools to generate a react application. Create React App, NextJS, and Vite are all good options, but for different use cases.
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NOTE: In the video I pronounce the word Vite by saying (Vyte) when the correct pronunciation is (Veet).
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CRA-NEXT-VITE MARKERS
00:00 | Intro
01:09 | Create React App
06:42 | NextJS
10:18 | Vite
14:03 | Which one is best?
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[@grogu4344]

Create React App is dead, bro.

[@saeedballanc]

What instead??

[@gale993]

Are you aware that most companies work with old versions of stuff or even deprecated software? cra being dropped by React doesn't mean it no longer works, or that companies won't use it. Calm your tits.

[@PedroTechnologies]

I believe that it still is alive, just not recommended for most use cases

[@kumop1718]

@@saeedballanc Vite

[@shakilahmed6870]

First learn the difference between 'dead' and 'not recommended'

[@mahbleh404]

Oh my goodness !!! You have grow so much !! i saw your first video when your voice was broken. like 2 years ago but look at you how much you've grown :) i was really inspired by your VSCode editor customization and also how you organized your projects. Thank you for being consistent with your channel.

[@cesarmelendez2577]

heard about vite for the first time couple weeks ago and was a bit confused. fast forward and my favorite tech youtuber is making a video on it. let's go!

[@ekansh5039]

Thanx buddy for clearing my doubt i was really confused in these 3 topic ... 🌷

[@Jeridi]

Thanks Pedro, you always amaze us with your new ideas !

[@epachecoc]

I heard about Vite a couple of weeks ago in my job but I never worked with that before. I gonna create some sample projects here because it sounds good. BTW thank you for the amazing content, you rock

[@visheshgupta4990]

Really Reallt Great video you solved my doubt It is all very confusioning what is create react app , next js or vite . Now I understand these all are the tools to write react but with there pros and cons . Next Js. is definitely I want to learn I learn react through create react app . Now the things is cleared . Thank You so much ! Subscribed

[@fatimaortega1000]

You uploaded, you literally make my day and help me so much!

[@seananih7609]

I was typing to correct your pronunciation then you and you started to explain right b4 I submitted lol

[@marcoico7356]

Your really nice on your opinion 😊 keep up the good work 👍

[@currojugando6585]

Great explanation and very clear, how do you have those automated comands on your vscode console?

[@pedrohenriqueleite2146]

Thanks bro, you help me a lot

[@yuvalbra]

Grate video, what kind of extantion you used? specaily the one that you show in the terminal

[@preyah2857]

We need a video about SSR in Vite

[@monat_son]

Good one Pedro, thanks.

[@user-nj3lg7wi5r]

I thank you for this video. I’ve done two projects using CRA. Now I’m moving to NextJS because it is the best React framework for building full-stack web applications.

[@TechCisne]

Olá amigo! Sabe me dizer com NextJS teria a necessidade de utillizar o vite? Ainda estou nos meus estudos iniciais com o React

[@KodManJs]

What app or extension do you use in your vs code terminal to get that recommendation?

[@marfab100]

Your vsc wasn't stupid with the red lines, vite doesn't install the dependencies on it's own you actually have to 'npm install' after 'creat vite'. Nevertheless cool video

[@PedroTechnologies]

Yeyeye i forgot hahahaha I recorded all the instalations in a sequence after the vid so I was just doing it quickly. Thank you for poiting it out!!

[@partoflife1]

That exactly I'd to say :)

[@Pareshbpatel]

A great overview of create-react-app, nextJS and vite. Thanks, Pedro {2023-05-03}

[@howiewang4238]

Thank you for the video. Nice job! ~~~~

[@art-sider]

thank you so much !

[@bulaloitech]

I tried Nextjs. I like how when you 'npm run build' it transform your .js files into html which is good for SEO and why I'm thinking of changing into it from CRA that only has SPA. Still confusing tho

[@peshutanpavri1599]

Great video, thank you so much, I would love your opinion on this, Isn’t it true that Next.js can be used as a full backend server side application with security, database connectivity, rest clients etc ? Because I’m using Spring Java / kotlin for a lot of backend apis and I was thinking weather it’s better to use next or vite ? If I have a spring backend, is it necessary to have next.js ?

[@appstuff6565]

I was learning react and almost build a project too to launch. But CRA went dead so now I am in the dilemma of should i continue or learn something else. I think this video came at the right time. Thanks.

[@stonelam948]

It's not necessary to start over again when your project is almost ready to launch. IMO.

[@ipreet6850]

much needed video

[@user-zv7ou5pw3q]

What are you using for the terminal suggestion dropdown?

[@sidds09]

pls do a bigger react project. learning a lot from your videos.

[@aphmaple2348]

great video, thanks

[@jakewolf079]

I'm a beginner but I'm loving Vite now

[@thevasupodcast4561]

Bro, I love your content. You're my inspiration. I'm preparing for internships, can you please make some guidance videos on it ? Also where are you joining full time? My guess - twitch

[@NoOne000_Official]

Hey can you make a tutorial making a todo app with react and electron with offline storage. And your videos are amazing.

[@ritankarbhattacharjee7661]

please do a video on a detail explanation about webpacks and babel.

[@lpa9189]

What VSCode extension is used to get suggestions in terminal at 6:07?

[@basilgaudion4723]

At 9:28, which vsCode extension enables autocompletion or suggestion in the terminal ?

[@mydaily21]

Finally!! Thanks mate :)

[@guilhermesandoval2665]

I could mention that cra and vite (not entirely) are no longer being recommended in the official documentation of react, where they prioritize using a framework to create our projects, but still great video

[@PedroTechnologies]

Yesss! But I don't think it is that big of a deal. They are both still options depending on the use case

[@anricoj1]

I really dislike how they kind of pushed Vite to the bottom of the page and didn't really highlight it like all the frameworks. I would typically send a beginner to the React docs to learn react. Them suggesting to use Next, Remix or Gatsby off the bat seems kind of poor IMO. People should learn React first, not React + a framework. The first suggestion should really be Vite

[@Sulayman.786]

​@@anricoj1 thanks, good advice

[@hamdihawari]

can I upgrade from react-app to react-vita or I should create new vita-react and past every component from the last react-app to vita-react-app? Thank You :)

[@thevasupodcast4561]

Can you make an updated tutorial on next js as it has changed a lot.

[@techghost2024]

Please make a video on SEO with Reactjs and Server Side Rendering with Reactjs. I don't want to leave React and learn Next

[@LiIRobJr]

Next is a framework and is build on top of react. You can learn next and still be using react

[@shakilahmed6870]

I high time for you to come up with next js 13 tutorial series

[@samuelkamau1550]

Great video, How about Remix ?

[@BabatundeAjagbe]

Am a beginner using create react am and I want to switch Pls should I use vite or next.js

[@johanesalberto6136]

thanks brother

[@hooooman.]

I'm a beginner and using create-react-app,and I'm planning to switch to vite,is that switching hard? I mean the syntax,other blah blah is different in vite than create-react-app?how much thing's i need to learn for it? what are the similarities between these two in terms of code , function,or other factors?

[@matthewmurnaghan4473]

Anyone know the name of the extension for vscode that is suggesting what flags to use and showing them witht the coloured icons?

[@GideonKNgetich]

What's that theme you're using??

[@jayasaikiran1761]

Bro IF possible make a tutorial on next js 13 version how to setup and routing concept in depth…

[@vonghesjonovan]

thank you

[@qgameua]

what's terminal extension u use?

[@gitraccoon]

Vite - French word for "quick", pronounced /vit/, like "veet".

[@PedroTechnologies]

Yess! I mentioned this in the vid :)

[@warsame2245]

my only issue with vite is that the server crashes when it encounters a problem unlike CRA but everything else, Vite clears it

[@DesignDensity]

Thanks for the video :) BTW, Vite is a French word and it reads "veet" 😉 Cheers

[@nested9301]

vayt

[@dhruvkumar-br2lp]

Thanks

[@vladimirpukhlenko9544]

please tell me who knows what kind of extension in vs code that makes hints in the terminal (6:05)

[@nathansantos4197]

I have a Saas in production created with CRA and I don't have any plans to update to Nextjs. I don't have any problem with CRA and it's A LOT MORE easy to use.

[@marin1419]

what about SEO though?

[@nathansantos4197]

@@marin1419 the same thing

[@samarnagar9699]

I don't know if this is too much to ask can you make your react guide wi vite I just think cra is uhh well you know

[@Lunolux]

when i use create react app, there was like 20.000 dependancy installed (node_modules), vite js has less than 3.000 packages, that was a big difference for me, but i hope they decrease for CRA past the year

[@s0ulweaver]

Why the f is your number of dependency packages a decimal number. If you meant to say 20000 and 3000, then use comma ffs. You can say 20000 or 20,000 or 20k even but YOU CAN'T use 20.000 because that just means 20

[@Lunolux]

@@s0ulweaver what are you talking about... dot is just a separetor to make it easy to read, and in some country, the dot is the equivalent to the comma there are many way to write the great number to make it easy to read but the caractere that are use depend on the country, i dont even know why we waste time talking about that, anyone who read the first comment would know that we dont talk about 3 and 20 but 3000 and 20000

[@s0ulweaver]

@@Lunolux oh. But if you use dot as a separator in those countries, then how do you write this number: 1,562,897.4603 with dot as a separator instead of comma? It would be 1.562.897.4603 now you don't know where the decimal point was because of using dot as a separator. And so when you said 20.000 it seemed like the number 20.

[@HSGG_]

​@@Lunolux 20.000 = 20 20.000 /= 20,000 Don't believe it? Put it in vs code, it never lies.

[@iUmerFarooq]

Any chances of making Vuejs tutorials?

[@yancavalcante27]

Great video, Pedro! Hey, I'm curious about something... Are you brazilian or even son of brazilian parents? It's kind of weird that I understand almost 100% of what you said cause your accent sounds like mine hahah

[@PedroTechnologies]

Lol I am 100% Brazilian! I lived in Salvador, Bahia for 18 years and then came to Canada for university :)

[@yancavalcante27]

I knew it hahaha! And I’m from Nordeste too ✨ Another reason to be a follower hehe

[@daniellimae]

Boa d+ ! tks for the good content

[@ubitubee]

Noob here, isn’t SSR more expensive than CSR? Does it matter?

[@siosaiafonua9286]

which one is better, nextjs or vite?

[@mlnima]

I am thinking to switch from nextjs to vite since they have stupid updates with no docs or example in whole internet. if any one knows can we have easy setup of i18n in vite react along server components please let me know

[@PanlasangMotour]

Vite is interesting hmm is this new ? can you make a sample tut using vite just a simple app ❤

[@shravyashetty3115]

How do I connect mongodb with react vite?

[@dimasnytin]

Greatly 🤩🤩🤩

[@irtazahussain8118]

Hey @pedro, I hope you are well. I've a request regarding a video. Can you please make a video on KZbin miniplayer?

[@kurdishfreeman7568]

Actually you forgot the most performant react framework, it's called Remix.

[@Tech-Dev]

Cheer for this

[@vishnun7769]

Vite is superb

[@dnjosh10]

Could you imagine that I spent over an hour just to remove one package from my application created using CRA. That thing called create react app is slower than snail

[@user-gf9ri4wj5h]

Next js first load js size is a problem.

[@error_man8045]

Imagine sacrificing SSR,ISR,page based routing for vite

[@ROHAN4953]

Can you make a tutorial for using nextjs as frontend with a custom backend server? Please

[@cryMoreLoL]

Why would anyone do that? 😂

[@ROHAN4953]

@@cryMoreLoL so beginners like you can learn something new and not stick to basics

[@cryMoreLoL]

@@ROHAN4953 If you really knew what you were doing you wouldn’t be asking on youtube. Project much? 🤡

[@Kretzzz]

I'm already halfway through on my project. Then seeing all the videos about create-react-app is not recommended by lots of devs. I'm thinking of redoing the front-end of my project now 😫.

[@jeklo3713]

Same I'm starting to make a project but I'm confused what should I use should I use vite or cra?

[@anamatei2134]

Don’t . Just finish this project and learn as much as you can and then start another project and learn NextJs. You need to know the difference between these two so you can understand why create-react-app is not recommended anymore

[@GemboyTV]

​@@anamatei2134 hello. So you recommend nxt js than vite? I'm just starting to learn react, some suggest not to use CRA, instead vite, but now there is also next js?

[@jtaylor8606]

Is it pronounced vIte or veet? The veet pronunciation is how the French word vite is pronounced, and that word translates as 'fast'.

[@PedroTechnologies]

Veet

[@NZTechArc]

What is server side rendering. Some new age bullshit. Someone please talk about MVC.

[@tutoriais5266]

Go away with your f ing negativity.

[@H4KV]

tu parece brasileiro, sei la, acho assim, mas congratulations for the video!

[@NoumanKhan-ck7vx]

how to create next js with vite

[@cryMoreLoL]

You can’t! Vite is a build tool! Next js is a full stack framework that currently uses TurboPack.

[@WhyNot-fp6cv]

How about if vs javascript? 🤣

[@preyah2857]

Great :)

[@GuilhermeAlmeida12]

Boa! Você tem pretensão de fazer videos em Português? Hehe

[@AndreSpecht]

Ele atinge muito mais usuários com inglês. Já passou da hora de brasileiro aprender inglês

[@tjw2392]

CRA eject can be nice. /shrug

[@maecana3695]

Vite in french is 'FAST'

[@muhammadxojarustamxojayev7678]

Vite is good but it has some issues which is not solved yet. 1. Routing problem. I don't why but when vite project is deployed online and when you want to go other pages of your application, it shows error. You can solve that problem but it takes time. 2. Second is testing, Vite doesn't support testing out of the box yet like cra. And you can configure that as well but this takes time too.

[@LuisReyes-zs4uk]

I had that routing problem as well! Super frustrating. How did you go about fixing it?

[@berat2690]

what's the routing problem can you explain

[@TheBerkayBUHLAR]

@@LuisReyes-zs4uk If it is on vercel there is a rule that you have to define

[@bojanbokisha]

Vite the best

[@vishalsolanki9234]

wbu turbopack ?

[@jvalbuquerque5601]

Tu é brasileiro por acaso? ksksksks

[@victorvillacis6764]

It’s Viiiiit and next js uses webpack

[@user-qq4qm1jf8d]

While I admire all those developers creating these videos and posting here in youtube for free, I'd advice developers beginners to ALWAYS do a research and form your own opinion around a subject. You should be able to read/watch any content on the internet and be able to differentiate fact from opinion. Saying that Server side rendering will be better because of SEO improvements is correct. But there is some information missing regarding SSR. - Not all applications need SEO, so you don't really need SSR in every system you develop. - It's slower to render. So, you lose a bit of performance. - It adds more complexity specially if the application is very dynamic. So, you lose a bit of performance also on the development side. - It will require more resource from the server. Not too much, but it will.

[@RealMusicLives33]

""veet""

[@haroonahmed1077]

RIP CRA. 1 like to pay respect

[@tubebility]

vite ~ bite veet ~ feet 🙄

[@ased4u]

why you calling it vite? its obviously called vite.

[@salahaldinedouard5299]

It’s pronounced veet not vite it’s a France word not English

[@NZTechArc]

Dude Slow Down. You speak to fast listen to your self back, "React React App" blurrs together into a mumble.

[@vali69]

Nah man, maybe you're just old. I wonder what you'd think about Japanese, since if this is fast, Japanese would sound like Eminem singing rap god.