Meta's create-react-app unofficially officially deprecated

The `create-react-app` utility for node made to quickly start a frontend app with a CLI to choose your dependencies has been broken for a whole month now.

Lead maintainers at Meta have been taking a long vacation for a tool that is used by 13M+ people. For the past months, trying to use the tool by itself causes it to crash due to a mismatch between React v18 and v19.

Hacky workarounds obviously work, editing your deps after the CLI crashes... Though that makes the CLI itself useless. There are alternatives like `vite` which do this very well, though it's sad to see such tools get abandoned like this...

> 1.8k issues

> 490 merge requests

> mfw meta

It's weird the way they just let it rot in place, without officially deprecating it.

I think the alternative is now vite, which is definitely better, but switching can be a massive hassle.