Why you need Universal React?
Pain Points of Frontend Development!
- Reinventing the wheel when setting up new projects.
- Maturity and quality of the solution depends on the architect on the project.
- Delays setting up dev eco-systems, quality gates and pipelines.
- Overall lack of efficiency, as replication of best practices isn’t easy.
How does Universal React addresses above concerns?
- Instant initial setup of essential tools for enterprise scale React applications.
- Continuous value addition beyond initial setup through evolving accelerator.
- Attention to Developer experience for great productivity.
- Preservation and replication of low-level best practices.
With Reuse, Replicate and Reduce philosophy at its core Universal React is an accelerator to generate SSR, SSG or Micro-Apps with essential tooling to enable great dev experience and solution quality.
Industry Comparison
| Create React App | Create Next App | Universal React App | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSR, SSG | No | Yes | Yes |
| MicroApp | Yes | No | Yes |
| Customization | Low | High | Very High |
| Monorepo setup | No | No | Yes, with Turborepo |
| Typescript | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Unit Testing setup | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Inbuilt Storybook | No | No | Yes |
| Design system | No | No | Yes |
| Micro App Loader | No | No | Yes |
| State Management Solution | No | No | Yes, with Smart Context |
| Browser & Server logger | No | No | Yes |
| Component generator | No | No | Yes, with Generate Plop |
| Module Federation | No | No | Yes |
| Quality control config | No | No | Yes |
| E2E automation | No | No | Yes, with Test Cafe |
| PWA | No | No | Yes, with Workbox |
| VS Code Config | No | No | Yes, extensions recommendations and config |
Impact and Efficiency
Not only Universal React saves 100s of initial setup hours, it brings in efficiency by reducing the effort to explore solutions, tool and best practices.
Lets take an example: If you