ReactBasicStarter

For frontend web development, let's take a look React as our main library.

I've created this boilerplate React starter as basic as possible while still including Babel and Webpack.

Getting Started

Open up your Terminal, checkout this repo, install dependencies with do this following:

Setup

> git clone https://github.com/hidayatabisena/BasicReactStarter.git
> cd BasicReactStarter
> npm install
> npm start

Usage

Open http://localhost:3000/.

Why Basic?

The primary purposes of this project is basic as its name. Too many dependencies can cause confusion at the beginning. The process of selecting and adding what you need to a minimal project can be a good way to learn.

Babel and Webpack are the tooling that completely essential in a React project.

Webpack: Webpack serves as both the web server and the JavaScript bundler. Babel: We will use JSX in our components, and JSX is a succinct way to write out the layout of a React component. Babel transforms the ES6 JavaScript that we will be writing into ES5 JavaScript that current browsers can understand.

More Details

no CSS. Will add later on the next release, perhaps.
no Flux. If you need it - try Redux or I'll add later too.
Webpack is run with the express and webpack-dev-middleware.
The 'content base' is set to www. Any files in that directory will be served by express.