Version 2.0

[cereallarceny]

To summarize, I'm doing a total rewrite of cra-ssr to bring it up to date with the latest the React community has to offer.

This is to be considered a living document. I'm taking suggestions on features you'd like to see, comment below!

Features (most of which already exist):

• Rewrite to be used as a dev dependency
• Use with any React project, including CRA and others
• Rebrand to not be tied to Create React App
• Support code splitting
• Support for hooks
• Support variety of CSS in JS
• Support CSS preprocessors (index.module.scss not supported #60)
• Support static asset serving (svg, png, jpg, webp, etc.) (WebP file support #58, Add an SVG inline #56)
• Support for relative and absolute URLS (Errors with node modules while serving #57)
• Support for any state management library (Redux, Mobx, Redux Sagas) (need help, SSR not working with Redux Saga  #34, SSR render async Helmet content using redux-saga? #35)
• Support for cookies
• Custom data loading (with or without react-frontload)
• Add support for some components to skip server-side rendering (Apply ssr to some components #54)
• CLI interface for converting existing projects (if necessary)
• Support ejection, but don't make it mandatory (Serve crashes if the app is ejected #51)
• Add isServer flag to help front-end libraries know when it's safe to use window (Window is not defined error from third party libraries #44)

Bugs to keep in mind:

#53

[cereallarceny]

Deprecation notice

It didn't take long. The web has grown a lot since I first developed this project. Lo and behold @jaredpalmer has beat me to it. I'm going to shut down shop at cra-ssr in favor of a better solution: Razzle.

To anyone looking to use cra-ssr, I highly suggest you check out Razzle instead.

[hugominas]

Thank you for all the work @cereallarceny, I have used cra-ssr in many projects. Lately I have been using react-snap but I will definitely look into Razzle.

[microcipcip]

@cereallarceny that's a pity, I chose cra-ssr over razzle as it was very straightforward to understand what was happening in the background, thanks for your awesome project anyway :)

[cereallarceny]

Thank you for your support @hugominas and @microcipcip! Of course, I'll leave the repo online. If Razzle isn't your thing, you might want to check out CRA Universal. It's a similar approach to cra-ssr. Likewise, I suggest you check out Razzle again - it's seemingly identical to what I intended to do for version 2 of cra-ssr.

[harrisonlo]

I honestly like cra-ssr over razzle, the latter has too many things under the hood that made my other integrations a pain in the ass (i.e. Ant Design, etc.)

[cereallarceny]

I was likely going to take a nearly identical approach anyhow @harrison0723, but I appreciate the kind words!