This repository contains all the (biased) setup files for a react web application:
- Folder structures
- Webpack & webpack dev server: You can develop fluently
- Flow typing: You get types in javascript
scss&cssloader:import 'style.scss'in your javascript files- Home directory when import: You can write
import '~/components'when import - React Router: Front-end routing plugin
- An express server, so that you can build and then run the application on your server
To setup this repo, first clone this to your local machine. Make sure you have node (10.0+) and npm (6.2+) installed, and then
$ npm install
At the same time, make sure that you fill in all the FILL-IN- placeholders in
package.json. Also do install flow-bin in your computer in order to run the flow
type check.
To develop this repo on your local machine, run
$ npm run dev
This will open up port 9000 on your machine. If you want to change the port, go to src/config/webpack.dev.config.js.
So now go to localhost:9000/ on your browser, you can then see the page showing up.
We will generate an express server serving a single-page application. To do that, run
$ npm run build
This command will create several compiled files under src/build/. Make sure index.html, main.css, main.js are
all there, then run
$ npm start
to start the express server. This will open up port 3000 on your machine. Go to localhost:3000 to view the webpage
if you are running the production server on your own machine. If you are deploying this on a server, make sure you
redirect the requests to the port 3000. Or if you want to pick another port, go to src/config/express.config.js and
change the port property there.
$ npm run clean