Creating a Simple CRUD App with Rails and React

This is the code repository to accompany a tutorial on how to create a Rails API then, using esbuild, build a React front-end to consume it.

Requirements

• Ruby
• Node.js

There are instructions for installing both Ruby and Node at the beginning of the tutorial.

Installation

• Clone repo
• Run bundle install
• Run npm install
• Run rake db:create, rake db:migrate, then rake db:seed

Running

• Start the Rails server and esbuild with one command ./bin/dev
• Hit http://localhost:3000/events