[lentil]

CRA has been a maintenance burden for my team for the last couple of years due to security vulnerabilities and incompatibilities in old packages.

We have several React apps (created with CRA) to support, embedded deep inside ASP.NET Web Forms apps (its legacy all the way down).

We decided to switch from CRA to Vite. It has worked great so far.

I am happy to see these docs recommend Vite as an option for adding React to existing apps, because at the time this decision was made on my team, it wasn’t very clear what the correct path was for replacing CRA. I don’t think we could have as easily switched to a framework like Nextjs.

If you are in a similar situation, I would recommend Vite.