Hey friends. So today I was working on a little problem that I had with

Create React app. So if you don't know Epic React is a combination of abunch of React workshops that I have given many times in a life setting andit's a recorded version of kind of a live workshop that's kind of the feel.

Anyway, all of the workshops there are powered by create react app under

the hood and I've got a abstraction on top of that to share a bunch of codebetween all these different workshops.So I am in the process of movingeverything over to TypeScript and I want to be able to have two differentversions of TypeScript or of texture configuration for the exercises versusthe final version.

So I want to make sure that as we're moving everything over to TypeScript

if you don't want to do TypeScript, it's as like easy as possible or ifyou've got very limited experience or no experience with TypeScript, youshould still be able to get a lot of out of the workshops without having tohave a bunch of red squigglies all over the place with their messages thatyou don't understand.

And so,I don't want to have strict mode on of course for the those

exercises because that would be against that goal. But I do want to havestrict mode on for the final version of all the the exercises so I youknow, because there's good reason to have strict mode and and it kind ofhelps me as I'm working on it to make sure that I'm doing everything theway that you probably should in a real application.

And so, unfortunately with Korea react app if you don't have the TS config

set up proper well here let me back up so.You can do this by having usingproject references and so you have just your main TS config that referencesother TS configs and then those can include an exclude different files.

So I can get that set up but the problem is that in create react app if

you're root TS config isn't doesn't have all the right properties then itwill fill those in automatically for you and that messes up the referencesstuff. So, it just doesn't support references which is a big bummer.

I made an issue about this. But what I did for,The foreseeable future

unless create react to app ad support for references is I used this packageon NPM called Patch Package and it allows you to install all of yourdependencies and then you make a change to one of the files in your nodemodules and then you run the script and it will generate a patch for youand then you just set a post-install script in your package JSON and itwill after your people install it it will apply that patch.

And so, I was able to make a small change to create react app to support

this. So give patch package a look it's pretty cool. It's kind ofinteresting. IHope that was interesting to you and I'll talk to you later.