version 0.4.1 serves non-HTML files as text/html

my index.html file needs to load some CSS and JS files directly which worked fined in previous releases but not with react-scripts version 0.4.1 because they are served with wrong content-type text/html.

These files cannot be loaded using import statements in JS files due to various issues caused by some obscure differences between two approaches.

[gaearon]

I don’t know what compelling benefits requiring webpack loader-based inclusions brings to create-react-app users and developers but I think it’s a glaring flaw in an otherwise wonderful developer tool.

Content hashing works correctly. If you update your jQuery plugin, an old version won’t be accidentally cached by your users.

If you use code splitting, you can delay loading jQuery and plugin code until you actually load the component using it, without writing any complicated code to inject scripts dynamically. Thanks to Webpack.

Same for any other asset types. Images get correct hashes automatically.

If you link to an image, and that image gets deleted, you will get a compile time error rather than a 404 in the app.

There are numerous benefits 😉

[sladkovm]

Thanks! d3.csv import also works now.