Need for ejecting create-react-app

I tried using this box this past weekend at ETHWaterloo but ended up just cherry picking the code I needed instead. There were 2 mains reasons for this:

1. We had already committed some contract code to a bare truffle init project and couldn’t use the unbox command as a result
2. After looking at the repo I wanted to avoid ejecting create-react-app

The solution we came up with was to create a new react app in a client directory inside the truffle app. This solves the issue of create-react-app and truffle both using a build directory in the same folder. We did run into an issue that create-react-app doesn’t allow importing code from outside of its own src directory which we solved with a symlink.

Here is our project for reference: https://github.com/kevinhughes27/ticket-wicket src directory with symlink https://github.com/kevinhughes27/ticket-wicket/tree/master/client/src

Were there any other reasons for ejecting create-react-app? It will be easier to maintain the box if create-react-app doesn’t need to be ejected.

[adrianmcli]

@gre if you are not opposed to Next.js, I’ve created a Truffle Box to work around this: https://github.com/adrianmcli/truffle-next

[adrianmcli]

Yeah I literally copy and pasted the exact same thing + the getWeb3.js from the utils folder. The Web3 object initializes correctly, I tested that out.

I also made sure to install Web3 and truffle-contract. Literally the only difference should be the fact that it’s not an ejected project (or maybe I’m missing a dependency?). I’ll make a repo and post it here ago tho, thanks for taking a quick look.