Is create-react-app still maintained?

No — create-react-app stopped being maintained around February 2025. create-react-app's own maintainers named vite as the successor.

• successor named by the maintainers
• medium confidence
• package successor

What should I use instead of create-react-app?

create-react-app's own maintainers named vite as the successor. vite is not a drop-in replacement, so expect to change call sites.

How to migrate from create-react-app to vite

For a plain SPA: move public/index.html to the project root and rewrite its %PUBLIC_URL% placeholders, replace react-scripts with vite and @vitejs/plugin-react, and rename REACT_APP_ environment variables to VITE_.

Why create-react-app is on this list

The React team deprecated Create React App for new apps in February 2025; the post states CRA has no active maintainers, and the 5.1.0 release published at the same time prints a deprecation warning on install. React's own guidance points new projects at a framework such as Next.js, React Router or Expo first, and names Vite, Parcel and Rsbuild for people who want to roll their own setup. Vite is the usual destination for a plain single-page app, but a framework is the team's primary recommendation, so treat to as situational.

The succession is well supported, but it is not the only defensible choice.

create-react-app alternatives

Beyond the primary recommendation, these are credible for create-react-app's use case:

• next — view on npm
• react-router — view on npm
• expo — view on npm
• @rsbuild/core — view on npm
• parcel — view on npm

Check your own project for create-react-app

npx dead-deps --all --min-state unmaintained

Run that in the directory holding your lockfile. If create-react-app is anywhere in your tree — a direct dependency or buried under something else — it appears in the report with this verdict, this successor and the same evidence links, alongside anything else that has stopped moving. Nothing is uploaded; the scan reads your lockfile locally and queries public registry metadata.

Exit code 1 means something was flagged, which makes npx dead-deps --min-state deprecated usable as a CI gate. See how verdicts are produced.

Evidence

Every claim on this page traces to a primary source. Check them:

• React blog: Sunsetting Create React App (14 Feb 2025)react.dev
• Create React App README: the project is in long-term stasis and migration is recommendedgithub.com

Packages related to create-react-app

• snowpackSuccessor named by the maintainers: vite · unmaintained since April 2022
• parcel-bundlerRenamed package: parcel · unmaintained since March 2021
• @zeit/next-sassAbsorbed elsewhere: next · unmaintained since March 2020
• react-addons-test-utilsAbsorbed elsewhere: react-dom · unmaintained since April 2017
• react-testing-libraryRenamed package: @testing-library/react · unmaintained since May 2019

See the full index of covered packages, or read the methodology for how a verdict is reached and why a quiet package is not a dead one.