Express, React, Babel, Webpack Test Project

• Author: Abraham Bosch abrahambosch@gmail.com
• About: This is a tinker project to demonstrate how Nodejs, Express, React with Babel and Webpack work.

This project includes the following:

Nodejs

https://nodejs.org/en/ Web and API Server

Express

https://expressjs.com/ Nodejs server framework for the backend requests to https://queryfeed.net/twitter.

React

https://facebook.github.io/react/ for the view layer of the dynamic rss feed entries.

Babel

https://babeljs.io/ used to convert React JSX to ECMA5

Webpack

https://webpack.js.org/ Runs Babel and Bundles javascript toegther into one javascript file.

axios

https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios used for server and client side ajax requests.

xml2js

https://www.npmjs.com/package/xml2js used to convert RSS/XML feeds to json.

Install Instructions

1. Check out the code

   git clone git@github.com:abrahambosch/node_express_react_test.git
   or 
   git clone https://github.com/abrahambosch/node_express_react_test.git

2. change directories into the project

   cd node_express_react_test

3. install the node packages

   npm install

4. start the server

   npm start

5. in your webbrowser, go to http://localhost:8080