# timarney/react-app-rewired

Override create-react-app webpack configs without ejecting

Repository: https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-app-rewired
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, create-react-app, never, eject, webpack, config
Last push: 2026-08-11T02:27:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3677, "days_push": 23, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9840, forks 420 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:37.460937+00:00)

## What it is
A tool that lets you override create-react-app's webpack configuration without ejecting or forking react-scripts. You provide a config-overrides.js file that modifies the webpack config, keeping CRA's benefits while adding plugins and loaders.

## Use cases
- customize webpack config in create-react-app without ejecting
- add custom webpack loaders to a CRA project
- add webpack plugins to react-scripts builds
- avoid maintaining a fork of react-scripts
- extend CRA build pipeline with custom config

## When to choose
- you use create-react-app and need webpack customization that CRA doesn't allow
- you want to avoid the maintenance burden of an ejected CRA app
- you need to add loaders or plugins without forking react-scripts

## When to avoid
- you're starting a new project - consider Next.js or Razzle which support custom webpack natively
- you want official CRA support - overriding configs breaks CRA's guarantees
- you use CRA 2.0+ and want actively maintained alternatives like craco, customize-cra, or Rescripts

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: build-tool, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: create-react-app, webpack-config, no-eject, react-scripts, config-overrides, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- timarney/react-app-rewired (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.460937+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 2026-08-29T17:20:54.548695+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.460937+00:00, sha 93f4c0e8ce82)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-app-rewired (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:39.406776+00:00, sha c3a920098db8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.