---
title: "Create a React App without create-react-app ❓ 😟 (Using parcel)"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/create-a-react-app-without-create-react-app-using-parcel--ui1-rggtc
source_url: https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/create-a-react-app-without-create-react-app-using-parcel-ec87787eadd7
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2021-06-05T08:48:30.603Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["react", "webdev"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 21
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Create a React App without create-react-app ❓ 😟 (Using parcel)

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 3 min read · 21 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

We all know how to create a react app using create-react -app. But there will be some times where we don’t need to use that. So today we will see how tocreate a React app without using that. This will work as a normal react application but lesser weight (because of managed node modules)

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Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@crisleo94** · 1 upvotes

> Parcel is amazing create-react-parce-app

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