Minimalist create-react-app. Just enough to write a failing unit-test. 🔴 ✅

create-react-app-minimal.sh

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#
# 1. Save this file to /usr/local/bin
#
# 2. To make it executable: chmod u+x /usr/local/bin/create-react-app-minimal.sh
#
# 3. To create your app: create-react-app-minimal {app-name}
#
# 4. In your package.json, change this line:
#      "test": ...
#    to this:
#      "test": "jest"
#
# 5. And append this block:
#      ,
#      "babel": {
#        "presets": [
#          "env",
#          "react"
#        ],
#        "plugins": [
#          "transform-class-properties",
#          "transform-object-rest-spread",
#          "transform-runtime"
#        ]
#      }
#
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mkdir $1
cd $1

npm init -y

npm install \
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  babel-preset-react6.24.1 \
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  --save-dev

npm install \
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  --save

thank you for posting a minimalist version.
I am spending my day playing around with this as a base.

I think you have a typo. @jonathanconway

not working: babel-preset-react6.24.1
npm ERR! 404 Not Found: babel-preset-react6.24.1@latest

working: [email protected]

Thoughts?

Thanks for your feedback, @MichaelDimmitt. I'll see if I can resolve this. I also want to try and avoid spelling out the version numbers if possible, so that it picks up the latest version instead. Will work on a fix.