Create React v18 TypeScript Project with webpack and Babel

Toru Eguchi
ITNEXT
Published in
9 min readJul 31, 2022

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With create-react-app, you can properly and super easily setup a React TypeScript project. However, what if you predict your application becomes big? You would face many problems. For example, you would need multiple entry points, performance tuning, transpiling to ES5 still in 2022.

In such situation, it’s better to walk with webpack and Babel from the beginning…

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