React PWA

A highly scalable, Progressive Web Application foundation with the best Developer Experience.

Results

We haven't implemented CDN yet, thus a bit of variation in performance.

Chrome Lighthouse

Don't go with image, Check for yourself in your browser We ommited the performance as it was just 82 (pretty good huh??). Cause of server latency. Server is located somewhere in USA and we are in India

GTMetrix

Don't go with image, Check for yourself at GTMetrix

Pingdom

Don't go with images, Check for yourself at Pingdom

Features

Code splitting

The very difficulty faced when developing enterprise application is code splitting. We don't need everything in single JS file. Why not create individual JS files for respective module/page! We make it really easy here to just create a page that return array of routes. Code is split and loaded automatically when the respective route is called. (Enabled in production mode)

Hot Reloading

Development is lot easy with hot reloading. Make changes and the code is auto/hot-reloaded in the browser. And we have not missed "sass". Preserver application state when you update in underlying code.

ES6/7 Compatible

Using babel we support the next generation JavaScript syntax including Object/Array destructuring, arrow functions, JSX syntax and more...

Backed by React-Router

We are using the most accepted React router for routing the application. Add your favorite /about, /contact, /dashboard pages.

Offline support

Yes your application is offline available. Run without internet. Pretty cool huh?? Well all thanks to service workers. (Enabled in production mode)

SSR - Server side rendering

The best way to get your application SEO-ed is enable Server side rendering i.e. Universal applications. (Enabled in production mode)

SEO

Our customized routes enable creating meta tags to create Twitter, Google+, Linkedin, Facebook cards. We know how important SEO is to an application.

Content Folding

Show only relevant data when loading via server. Fold your content to save bytes.

Page Caching

Well now you can cache a page in SSR. Pretty simple. just add cache option to route

{ cache: { enable: true, duration: 10000}}

this helps you cache page when rendered via server. Why increase server load when page is static and cacheable!

API caching

Wait what? Why do you need to cache API ? With service worker & cache mechanisms, even opaque response can be cached (no kidding!).

Webpack ^3.6

We support the latest webpack for best output.

Pre-loading

Preloading for non-html browsers. Yes we give a damn about old browsers.

PWA support (Manifest.json)

Automatic generation of manifest.json. Lets make sure, we look good when someone adds us to home-screen.

WebP Support

Make your application super fast with WebP support. Read more about it at https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/

Image optimizations

Optimize your images when you create a build. this does slow the build process, but is totally worth it when your site loads fast. We are using imagemin plugins to optimize SVG, JPEG, GIF & PNG

PWA - SrcSet Loader (Progressive Image Loading)

Load appropriate srcset and make your site load fast for different view-port devices. We support srcset with WebP out of the box.

HSTS Supported

Enable HSTS for secure sites. Options to define maxAge and preload of HSTS. All with very simple configuration.

Quick start

Clone this repo using git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Atyantik/react-pwa.git
Move to the appropriate directory: cd react-pwa.
Use yarn to install dependencies: yarn
run yarn start to see the example app at http://localhost:3003.
To build the application you should run yarn build
To build and run PWA demo use the command yarn build && node dist/server.js

Now you are all set, Get your hands dirty with this awesome boilerplate.

Documentation

Still in progress... But why don't you checkout our project's wiki

Testing

We have not written any test cases yet. Yet mocha is all set to test the application we need contributors for the purpose

Docker support

Now easily manage docker-build, given Docker is properly configured and the terminal that is running the nodejs has access to docker command.

Working with docker:

yarn docker:dev:image

Will create a development image named "react-pwa" which will be used during application development and running. If anything new is added to package.json yarn docker:dev:image must be rebuild to get the latest nodejs packages

yarn docker:dev:start
will start the application in docker mode.

yarn docker:prod:build
will start the build the application for production

yarn docker:prod:image
will create a docker image that can be deployed easily to any docker-hub and can create production containers

yarn docker:prod:start
will start the application in production mode, its necessary to create docker:prod:image prior to docker:prod:start