JSConf 2015 React.js Training Workshop Code (Windows version)

This is the starter code for the Introduction / Getting started with React.js training workshop at JSConf 2015

This boilerplate is specifically for Windows users. Non-windows users should see https://github.com/jeffbski/jsconf-react

This boilerplate code has these features:

• Windows support - Tested on WinXP, should work on anything newer. Also works with msys (but not required). Only restriction is that it needs to use local drives, not network drives.
• React.js JSX example which fetches from REST source and renders
• simple build and auto rebuild (watch) using npm run scripts
• browser-sync for auto reloading in browser on change
• ES6/7 and JSX compiling to ES5 with babeljs
• eslint for linting
• browserify (w/babelify) for bundling javascript for the browser
• watchify to automatically rebuild on changes
• uglify for js minification
• less CSS style compiler
• autoprefixer for automatically adding css prefixes
• cleancss for css minification
• axios for promise based HTTP client

Structure:

• package.json - dependencies and build commands
• public/index.html - main HTML
• public/fake-api.json - mock REST api returning json data
• src/browser.jsx - React.js JSX code which fetches REST data and renders into the main HTML
• src/util/polyfill.js - Import any core-js or other polyfills here
• assets/site.less - CSS styles used by site, edit or import into
• bs-config.js - browser-sync config, set browser to launch, middleware implementing a REST api used for the app
• dist/ - contains compiled and minified css and js

Branches:

Change branches to iterate through implementing features for the solution.

git checkout stepX # iterate through solution

• master / step0
  • initial starting boilerplate
  • working autobuild react.js / babel dev environment
• step1
  • fetch /pools
  • display all questions
  • shuffle-array
  • display first shuffled poll w/choices
• step2
  • Display poll as form
  • Post { YOUR_ID: IDX } to /polls/${id}
  • that Returns poll result, display poll result
  • Use PieChart from react-d3-components to display
• step3
  • Use state to display first poll
  • Use state to hold shuffled polls
  • Add next survey button which shifts poll
  • setState trigger update to show new poll
• step4 / final
  • Add admin.html
  • Add conditional logic location.pathname = '/admin.html'
  • fetch /admin/polls, display all
  • Add question form
  • post { question: 'What', choices: [ 'Foo', 'Bar'] } to /polls

Notes:

• My default browser for browser-sync is Google Chrome, if you want to use a different browser like Google Chrome Canary or Mozilla Firefox edit bs-config.js

Installation

Requires node.js/iojs >= 0.10

npm install ## install dependent node modules

Usage

Primary use - auto build and reload browser

npm run watch # build and watch, auto recompile and load changes
# use control-c to exit the autobuild watch

Build only

npm run build # build only

Build for Production

npm run prod-build # sets NODE_ENV=production then builds

More info

• contact me via twitter @jeffbski - http://twitter.com/jeffbski
• Register for my membership list on http://codewinds.com/ to get notified about my upcoming React.js video training, podcast, and tutorials.

License

• MIT license