react-ecosystem

Overview

This is a basic setup for a React app with the tools needed to get a development environment up and running.

Technologies

• React
• Webpack
• Babel
• webpack-dev-server
• React Hot Loader 3
• Jest
• Enzyme
• ESLint
• Express
• TravisCI

Directory Structure

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├── /dist/                          # Folder destination for building bundles for production
├── /src/                           # Source files to be bundled by webpack
│    ├── /components/               # React views component package
│    └── index.js                   # App entry point
├── /tools/                         # Tooling folder containing scripts and config for development, building and deployment
│    ├── webpack.client.babel.js    # Webpack configuration file for bundling server-side code
│    ├── webpack.common.js          # Base Webpack configuration file
│    ├── webpack.dev.babel.js       # Webpack configuration file for adding development properties to client-side config
│    └── webpack.server.babel.js    # Webpack configuration file for bundling client-side code
├── .babelrc                        # Babel configuration file to define presets and plugins
├── .eslintrc                       # ESLint configuration file to specify linting rules
├── index-template.html             # HTML template used for HtmlWebpackPlugin

Development

1. Clone repo to your machine and navigate to project
2. Run npm install to install npm modules
3. Run npm run dev to start the Webpack development server

Production

1. Run npm run build to transpile client-side and server-side code
2. Run npm start to start up Express web server to serve React app
3. Navigate browser URL to http://localhost:3000 to run React app