webpack-rails-react-router

This example app was built using webpack-rails-react with the --router flag passed on generation. This is a simple Todo List App to demonstrate extracting your client to a React application using react-router.

Running Sample App

1. git clone
2. npm install && bundle install
3. bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate
4. foreman start

Steps taken

1. Create a new rails app

rails new todo_app --skip-turbolinks

2. add webpack-rails-react to your Gemfile

gem 'webpack-rails-react'

3. create and migrate the database
4. generate the app with react-router

bundle exec rails g webpack_rails_react:install --router

5. enter y to npm install
6. enter y to bundle install
7. generate a controller

rails g controller home index --no-helper --no-assets

8. change your routes file to root to your new controller and hand off all routes to react-router

root 'home#index'
get '*unmatched_route', to: 'home#index'

*unmatched _route must be the last line of the routes file 9. Create a NoMatch component and add to your client side routes.

<Route path="*" status={404} component={NoMatch}/>

10. app/views/home/index.html.erb add <div id="app"></div>
11. You will find the react app in webpack/