The Five

cra-universal@5

• Supports latest react-scripts@5
• React 18 with Suspense SSR support (using renderToPipeableStream by default)
  • User can still use string renderer (renderToString) by passing:

    import stringRenderer from '@cra-express/universal-loader/lib/renderer/string-renderer';
    ...
    createReactAppExpress({
      handleRender: stringRenderer,
    })

• React Babel Automatic Runtime
• Webpack 5 + Babel 7
• Migrate lerna to pnpm
• Updated SVG support
• Updated docs for hydrateRoot changes
• General dependency upgrade
• New demo at Codesandbox

Breaking changes

• express@4 is now a peerDependency, please install it as dependencies on your app
• By default, the SSR renderer will be node stream instead of string, which will support full Suspense features