[weiming]

And so I use create-react-app anytime I need to start a front-end JS/TS project, even if I am not using React at all. Basically avoiding dealing with troubleshooting the soup of build time dependencies and mismatching package versions, which unfortunately comes with the modern JS (or node) ecosystem.

[onion2k]

Using Parcel.js (https://parceljs.org/getting_started.html) or Snowpack (https://www.snowpack.dev/) would give you the same benefit without pulling in the React things that you're not using.