cra-minimal runs create-react-app and then replaces the contents of the src/ folder with my preferred minimal boilerplate. Read more in the About this program section below.

Install create-react-app:

npm install -g create-react-app

Install cra-minimal:

npm install -g https://github.com/ericandrewlewis/create-react-app-minimal

Use cra-minimal as you would use create-react-app to create a project:

cra-minimal my-new-react-project

Uninstall if you don't like it:

npm uninstall -g cra-minimal

I 💚 create-react-app, but I don't always want the boilerplate files that it comes with:

src/
├── App.css
├── App.js
├── App.test.js
├── index.css
├── index.js
├── logo.svg
└── registerServiceWorker.js

This program runs create-react-app and replaces the contents of the src folder with my preferred boilerplate:

src/
├── App.css
├── App.js
└── index.js

import React, { Component } from "react";
import "./App.css";

class App extends Component {
    render() {
        return <div className="App">Hello World</div>;
    }
}

export default App;

import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import App from "./App";

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));