CRAO a CLI for creating react apps offline.

We can make it offline

We all know the struggle, every time we need to create a new react app wi must start by typing this command

npm create-react-app my-app

Then the skeleton of our app get created automatically with no build configuration, the problem here is there is a lot of NPM packages to download.
If you are like me living in a country with a very slow network, the process of creating new react app can take a while.
On the other hand if you are using a metered connection this is also can be a bad thing.

As we all know, necessity is the mother of invention.
So i made this tool that could help a lot of react developers to create apps offline and very fast you can find it here in NPM or in GitHub

installation

The installation process is as easy as drinking water.

npm install -g create-react-app-offline

Now we don't need internet, lets create our first app.

crao -n <app-name>

for example :

crao -n my-app

It will create a directory called my-app inside the current folder.
Inside that directory, it will generate the initial project structure and install the transitive dependencies:

my-app
├── README.md
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── .gitignore
├── public
│   ├── favicon.ico
│   ├── index.html
│   └── manifest.json
└── src
    ├── App.css
    ├── App.js
    ├── App.test.js
    ├── index.css
    ├── index.js
    ├── logo.svg
    └── serviceWorker.js
    └── setupTests.js

Let's help each other

You can visit the repo on github or follow me on twitter, and lets work together on making more open source projects.