A modern react app (January 2025 edition)

This is a public template to start up a preconfigured React app for best DX.

The main features of this template:

• Editor config - for human-readable line length, consistent space indentations and end of line rules.
• List of VS Code recommended extensions to enhance web developer experience.
• Husky git hooks manager that enables running scripts at various points in the Git workflow (e.g., pre-commit).
• Lint-staged runs linters on staged files only, ensuring code quality and formatting before commits.
• Stylelint helps maintain consistent and error-free CSS code by enforcing coding standards and catching syntax errors.
• Eslint to enforce consistent coding styles and catch potential errors in your JavaScript code.
• TypeScript enhances code quality and maintainability in web development by providing static typing and advanced tooling features.
• PostCSS allows you to transform CSS with plugins, enabling features like autoprefixing, nesting, and custom syntax, enhancing your workflow and code quality.
• Tailwind CSS utility-first, flexible CSS framework for rapid custom styling and responsive design, promoting a component-based approach.
• Browserslist allows you to specify target browser versions for your project, ensuring compatibility and optimized performance across different environments. (Integrated with eslint, stylelint and babel)
• Babel for transpilation to ensure compatibility with older browsers and to leverage modern JavaScript features through plugins.
• Vite for fast, lightweight, modern build tool with instant HMR and native ES module support.
• Vitest testing framework optimized for Vite projects, supporting unit and integration testing with instant feedback.
• React Testing Library user centric, lightweight testing utility for React applications, encouraging best practices by focusing on component behavior rather than implementation details.
• Playwright cross-browser automation tool for end-to-end testing, enabling fast and reliable testing of web applications across multiple platforms.
• GitHub Actions CI/CD automation tool for building, testing, and deploying code directly from GitHub repositories, enabling seamless workflows.
• Lighthouse automated tool for performance, accessibility, and SEO auditing of web pages, providing insights for optimization.
• PWA (Progressive Web App) web application that uses service workers for offline capabilities, background syncing, and improved performance, delivering a native app-like experience.