ReactJS on Google App Engine Free Tier

Written by Harald Rudell

One-liner install and run on Linux, press control+c to exit:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haraldrudell/go-google-app-engine-rocket.git && cd go-google-app-engine-rocket && npm install && npm start

Benefits

- **Free** as in beer - **ReactJS** can run modular view components single-page applications - **Free** on Google App Engine GAE [Standard environment](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/about-the-standard-environment}) - **Deploy-Ready** builds on localhost to deployable state as of 16-07-19 - **TODO** Self-deploy to App Engine using `npm run deploy` - **Free** as in beer

The Freeness of Free

- **Lofty Quota Allowances** in abundace: [resource quotas](https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas#Resources) Keyword is “Free.” - **Daily Replenish** of resources at midnight Pacific time - **No Charge Ever** on quota depletion app gives status code 403/503 https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas#When_a_Resource_is_Depleted - **No Credit Card** though if you take a risk and enable billing on your Google Account, some free limits are increased, too. - **Safety Limits** some per-minute event rate limits. Don’t hack the Google.

Features

- **ECMAScript 2016/stage-0** the latest language version - **Runtime is Go** that unlike ECMAScript is supported by the Free Tier of Google App Engine - **Built-in Transpile** from ECMAScript 2016/stage-0 to ECMAScript 5.1 that is runnable on the Go JavaScript implementation - **Environment** for build is Ubuntu 16.04 amd64, otherwise mileage may vary - **Free** as in beer

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