React Redux Express Boilerplate

Quick way to get up and started for prototyping with React, Redux and Express.

Bundled Dependencies

• React
• React Router
• Redux with redux-thunk
• Babel for ES6 awesomeness
• Webpack
• Express with Webpack HMRE
• Nodemon for server live-reload
• ESLint

Structure

The core app is structured to separate Redux containers and presentational components. Read more about it here. CSS modules is used by default to better scope and separate styles for each component, with a global CSS file for global styles.

• app - Core app
  • actions - Redux actions
  • api - External services integrated
  • components - Presentational components
  • containers - Data/State containers
  • reducers - Redux reducers
  • store - Redux store
  • app.global.css - Global CSS file
  • index.tpl.html - Template HTML for rendering React Components. This will be injected with <style> tags by Webpack
  • index.js - Entry point to app
  • routes.js - Sample React Router implementation
• server - Server code
  • server.js - Simple Express server setup for Webpack HMRE. By default offloads routing to React Router but can still have REST endpoints setup.
• static - Static assets

Usage

Installation

git clone [email protected]:zweicoder/react-redux-express-boilerplate.git
cd <project-directory> && npm install

Running

Start a hot dev server

npm run dev

Pushing without history

When you're ready to push, first set a new remote

git remote set-url <new-origin>

Checkout branch with no history, then commit and push

git checkout --orphan <new-branch>
git commit -a -m 'Initial Commit'
git push <new-branch>:master

or if no one is working on the repo

git push -f origin orphan:master

Now you can track remote master with your local master. Alternatively delete your local master branch after creating orphan branch, rename it to master and push.

Build

Consider linting and testing before build is allowed to happen, my personal opinion is it slows down prototyping so I only do it when the project gets bigger.

npm run build // This only builds for production

TODO

• Setup tests
• Server build