react-es6-starter

A simple starter template for a React ES6 web app, companion to Getting Started with React & ES6.

This project and article demonstrates:

1. How to get started with ES6 code using a combination of Webpack and Babel
2. How to handle ESX transpilation
3. A simple method to support unit tests for your application
4. Code Coverage for ES6

Check the code out, npm install and then npm start!

git clone https://github.com/dwmkerr/react-es6-starter.git
cd react-es6-starter
npm install
npm start

You can run the tests with:

npm test

Notes

Heroku

The repo will deploy to Heroku as-is with no modifitications. To keep the repository as clean as possible I've left out the Procfile required to run with Heroku locally. However, if you need to do this, just add a file in the root of the repository named Procfile with the contents:

web: ./node_modules/.bin/http-server

Further Reading

Some useful material:

Testing

1. How to easily test React components with Karma and Webpack
2. How to implement testing and code coverage on React with Karma, Babel and Webpack

General

1. https://medium.com/@gunnarlium/es6-code-coverage-with-babel-jspm-karma-jasmine-and-istanbul-2c1918c5bb23
2. http://kentor.me/posts/testing-react-and-flux-applications-with-karma-and-webpack/
3. https://github.com/binarykitchen/gulp-jest-iojs/issues/1
4. http://www.hammerlab.org/2015/02/14/testing-react-web-apps-with-mocha/

Potential Improvements

[ ] Document setting up test-debug. [ ] Support ES6 and sourcemaps in the debug code. [ ] Build everything to build rather than having a build and public folder. [ ] Use the Webpack dev server, support live reloading and hot reloading. [ ] Show some component state in the React code and some component testing. [ ] Open the browser after test-debug starts. [ ] Show how a build command might differ from a start command (may be out of scope). [ ] Use global mutable state for react, leading into the next in the series (React + Redux).