reactGo

Your One-Stop solution for a full-stack app with ES6/ES2015 React.js featuring universal Redux, React Router, React Router Redux Hot reloading, CSS modules, Express 4.x, and multiple ORMs. 🚀

Formerly known as choonkending/react-webpack-node

Demo site:

https://react-webpack-node.herokuapp.com/

Features:

~~isomorphic~~ universal Rendering
Redux Predictive state containers.
Server-side rendering with React Router 2.x. Having server-side rendering allows you to pre-render the initial state of your components when a user (or search engine crawler) requests a page.
Integrating Redux with React Router with ~~Redux Simple Router~~ React Router Redux
Asynchronous Data Fetching on server-side rendering
Server side authentication + Redirecting for components
Hot reloading using react-transform-hmr
Time travel using Redux-Devtools Chrome Extension
Webpack for both development and production bundles. It's (in my opinion) the best bundler for JS, CSS, LESS, images, and lots more!
CSS Modules allows for modular and reusable CSS. Say goodbye to conflicts (most of them) and global scope
Unit Testing with webpack, karma, jsdom, mocha, sinon & enzyme
- Reducers
- Components (Enzyme)
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Actions
Express 4.x server with a ton of middleware
Mongoose for MongoDB
Sequelize for Postgres
Procfile to enable deployment to Heroku & Docs on Salt configurations + Deployment for Digital Ocean

Motivation

The motivation is simple: best practices and a wonderful development experience. Our ultimate goal is to provide a boilerplate for building non-trivial applications that are secure, performant and free of bugs. Believing a mixture of React.js, Webpack and Node was the best way to accomplish this, we created react-webpack-node.

react-webpack-node also works great as a learning tool for anyone interested in learning how to implement a large React application, or those who want a modern setup ASAP.

We've had extensive community additions to this boilerplate over time as practices have evolved, and are always interested in hearing new ideas or contributions.

Why Redux

We're really big fans of this implementation of flux for state management. The main principles of having:

a single store
state being read-only (you have to express an intent to mutate being creating actions)
mutations written as pure functions

make it very fun and easy to write predictable code! There's a ton of reasons why, but you should head to the Redux docs to dive in!

Or if you are more of a visual learner watch the free egghead video series narrated by the creator of redux:

Data Flow

A simplistic representation of data flow from server to client is:

Express app.use() receives a request
-> Calls a pre-built webpack file for the server
-> Runs matching of routes in react-router for server
-> Makes async data fetching request
-> Renders Route component to string
-> Construct HTML file (with Meta, Link tags using helmet)
-> Browser receives html file with initial state
-> Client side React.JS kicks in and initializes with given state
-> Continues where it left off
-> Everyone is happy :)

More TBD

Redux DevTools

You will have to install redux devtools extension from here and then everything should just work!

Instructions

Database

We currently support MongoDB and Postgres, as well as the ability to not use any database. Learn about how to configure your app.

Development

Development is a breeze. Once you have installed all your dependencies all the configuration is done for you. using simple The process is outlined here.

Unit Tests

Testing with:

karma as test runner
- karma.conf.js for the main karma configuration (it has webpack configurations)
- tests.webpack.js which is the single entry file. It uses webpack's require API to find all the files we need that have a -test.js suffix.
mocha as the test framework
jsdom as my test environment

# Run test once
npm test

# Run in watch mode
npm test:watch

We have unit tests for async (redux) actions, reducers, and stateless components with enzyme.

Deployment

Currently we support Heroku and Digital Ocean and AWS

Roadmap

We have an outline of our roadmap here

Yeoman Generator

If you like using yeoman generators, you could check out this cool yeoman generator by @iiegor!

FAQ

We have assembled an FAQ here

Check out what people have done

We have a list of projects that have been created with this boilerplate. Check them out to see what can be done or to get some inspiration.

How to Contribute:

Best way to keep up to date is check the issues. I really welcome improvements for all aspects of an app.

Any suggestions/improvements/bugs can be in the form of Pull Requests, or creating an issue.
Coding guidelines:

Credits to webpack-server-side-example, example-app, flux-examples, node-express-mongo-demo, hackathon-starter, web-starter-kit, awesome material-ui, alt and iso, react-starter, reap, isomorphic-redux-app and mxstbr/react-boilerplate

Easter Eggs 🥚

This boilerplate has gone through an evolution

React.js -> Facebook Flux -> Alt -> Redux

We have two implementations of universal flux:

Redux is on our active master branch
Alt (previously implemented) on flux/alt branch. It features iso, react-router and ImmutableJS.

Note: If you have previously used an alt implementation of this repository, please refer to this branch. I will not be updating it as frequently as master, but definitely welcome suggestions!

License

MIT

dan1983/reactGo