Noctis 🌑

Build bleeding-egde, isomorphic React applications with ease.

Isomorphic JavaScript applications are tough to setup. Either you buy into a framework like Next.js, fork a boilerplate, or set things up yourself. Noctis is a tool that gives you the awesome developer experience of create-react-app and enhances it with the configuration needed for SSR. Everything else is up to you.

Noctis comes with some features:

• 🔥 Hot Module Replacement for the client and auto restarts for the server. No manual reloads or restarts necessary

• Comes with ESNext (ES6+) JavaScript goodies (through babel-preset-noctis)

• It already uses S(CSS) Modules

• And all goodies from create-react-app

• Creating an App – How to create a new app.

Quick Overview

npx create-noctis-app my-app
cd my-app
npm start

(npx comes with npm 5.2+ and higher, see instructions for older npm versions)

Then open http://localhost:3000/ to see your app.

Get Started Immediately

You don’t need to install or configure tools like Webpack or Babel.
They are preconfigured and hidden so that you can focus on the code.

Just create a project, and you’re good to go.

Creating an App

You’ll need to have Node >= 8 on your local development machine (but it’s not required on the server). You can use nvm (macOS/Linux) to easily switch Node versions between different projects.

To create a new app, run a single command:

npx create-noctis-app my-app

(npx comes with npm 5.2+ and higher, see instructions for older npm versions)

It will create a directory called my-app inside the current folder.
Inside that directory, it will generate the initial project structure and install the transitive dependencies:

my-app
├── node_modules
├── package.json
├── .gitignore
├── public
│   └── favicon.ico
│   └── manifest.json
└── src
    └── client
        └── client.css
        └── client.js
    └── server
        └── render.js
        └── server.js
    └── shared
        └── App.css
        └── App.js
        └── App.test.js
        └── logo.svg

That's it. You don't need to worry about setting up multiple webpack configs or other build tools.
Once the installation is done, you can open your project folder:

cd my-app

Inside the newly created project, you can run some built-in commands:

npm start or yarn start

Runs the app in development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

npm test or yarn test

Runs the test watcher (Jest) in an interactive mode. By default, runs tests related to files changed since the last commit.

npm run build or yarn build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed.