The problem with maintainability

[sabarnix]

🙏 Thank you for this awesome React boilerplate 🙏
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There was a problem of maintaining (keeping track of the boilerplate changes) the project created with react-boilerplate, which was fixed to some extent by moving it to cra-template. Now, webpack and babel configs can be updated just by updating the react-script package.

For the rest of the configurations and generators, it is still difficult to update them by checking the changelog and diff.

Describe the solution you'd like
Move the project to a mono repo. Create separate packages for the generators, utils and configs (ESLINT, PREETIER etc). It will be very easy to upgrade to a new version of boilerplate this way.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[Can-Sahin]

I dont follow much. Utils and App folders are tightly coupled. There was never a case you need to modify just one without touching other. What good would it do to make them separate packages? Configs and lint prettier etc they hardly ever change anyway.

It can be never easy to just 'upgrade' to new version, sorry I have given lot of thoughts about it and still no good trade-off.

A monorepo would be way harder to maintain and keep it simple.

[sabarnix]

I will try to share a PR by this week

[sabarnix]

@Can-Sahin this is still WIP. https://github.com/sabarnix/react-boilerplate-cra-template/tree/wip. See if you like the idea.

[Can-Sahin]

thanks will check it out.

[Can-Sahin]

Ok I checked it and its pretty much what I imagined at first. But still struggling to understand how helpful would this be?

• dotfiles folder almost NEVER change. The last change was probably 2 years ago.
• internals file will be updated mostly 80% of the time when template folder is updated. Starting templates and generators are directly targeting the real app so its highly coupled. Meaning, almost all the releases will have 2 release with first template package and then internals package.

This monorepo would only come handy when doing version bumps for template package because you cant just bump the version of react there and dont touch other packages.

I like the idea actually but I feel like the components of the boilerplate is all together single unit of work. There are not really independent pieces isolated from others. I have several future plans like switching to redux toolkit query and ditching redux-saga etc but considering those with this monorepo approach I have to 3 releases (each package) and it would even complicate things for everybody willing to update

[sabarnix]

After doing some more research I found that, since react-boilerplate is tied to cra, the current implementation is probably the best suited for most uses.

In my case, I maintain a lot of apps created form the react-boilerplate which has some modifications like some uses rtk-query, some only redux and few uses typescript. My goal is to maintain the dotfiles for all projects in a repo and have different versions of generators. I will continue to work on the fork for my projects. I am also exploring razzle which might be better suited for my need. Will work on creating a react-boilerplate like setup for razzle.

regarding switching to redux toolkit query, it is great but only when your project is simple fetch and show data. When things gets complicated I feel the code becomes more complex as you have to do more in transform response to store in normalised form. For which I think it is better to use just the redux toolkit.