How to migrate from react-boilerplate to react CRA?

[avadheshchauhan]

There is an existing project that uses a react-boilerplate template, but I would like to move it to react CRA. However, there are no guidelines on how to migrate. Is there any way to migrate?

[najmamat]

I have recently migrated a project using react-boilerplate to another bundler (Vite). Basically what i did:

1. Created a new project using the vite template. Choose the one that suits you, i chose react with JS (https://stackblitz.com/edit/vitejs-vite-wczmsi?file=index.html&terminal=dev)
2. Moved over packages and run install
3. When you have installed packages from your old project and just run them template screen -> move over your code. You will have to fix imports, or configure the import rules in vite.config.js file. It is tedious work, but it is doable using regex search & replace in your IDE. You just keep fixing the errors until you can run the app.