# jeffposnick/create-react-pwa

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app + Progressive Web App goodness

Repository: https://github.com/jeffposnick/create-react-pwa
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/create-react-pwa
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Topics: progressive-web-app, react, react-starter-kit, create-react-app, service-worker, offline, sw-precache
Last push: 2020-11-02T19:41:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3675, "days_push": 2130, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1265, forks 100 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:10.901963+00:00)

## What it is
A fork of create-react-app that adds Progressive Web App support, including service worker generation via sw-precache for offline functionality. It is deprecated because its functionality was merged into the official create-react-app project.

## Use cases
- scaffold a React app that works offline
- create a React project with a service worker preconfigured
- build a progressive web app starter with React
- add offline caching to a new React app
- generate a React PWA boilerplate

## When to choose
- studying how PWA support was added to create-react-app historically
- maintaining a legacy project already based on this template

## When to avoid
- starting any new React PWA project - use official create-react-app or modern alternatives like Vite
- needing maintained tooling or security updates
- working with current React ecosystems

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: build-tool, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: -
- tags: pwa, service-worker, react, create-react-app, offline-first, deprecated, boilerplate, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- jeffposnick/create-react-pwa (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:10.901963+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T08:33:19.107938+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jeffposnick/create-react-pwa (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:10.901963+00:00, sha 5b495f1d584c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.