React-Based Foundation: This boilerplate is built on React, a popular and powerful JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It provides a modern, component-based structure for your client projects.
Custom Front-End: With this boilerplate, you can craft unique, custom front-end designs and user experiences, tailored to your client's specific needs.
CMS Integration: The boilerplate is designed to smoothly integrate with various CMS platforms such as HubSpot, Sitefinity, and WordPress, allowing you to port data and content from these systems with ease.
Data Mapping and Migration: It includes tools and techniques for mapping and migrating data points, ensuring a seamless transition of content and information from the CMS to the custom front-end.
Scalability: This boilerplate provides a scalable foundation, making it suitable for both small and large projects. It offers a well-organized project structure for maintainability and expandability.
The primary goal of the React CMS Boilerplate is to expedite the development process for client-side projects that require custom front-end solutions while maintaining existing CMS platforms for content management. It offers a starting point for developers to create web applications that can seamlessly pull data from CMS systems like HubSpot, Sitefinity, and WordPress.
By using this boilerplate, developers can save time and effort in setting up the project's core structure, focusing on creating a unique and visually appealing front-end. This repository encourages collaboration, sharing best practices, and extending the boilerplate's features to adapt to different client needs and CMS platforms.
Developers can confidently use this boilerplate as a solid foundation for web projects that demand the flexibility of custom front-end development while retaining the convenience and power of established CMS solutions.
This is a dev environment that allows you to develop in modern ES6 using Babel.
Clone the repository and run npm install in the command line to get set up. (If you're using VS Code, Ctrl + ~ will open terminal for you.)
npm update
npm install
npm run start - starts the dev server, including watch, and sets up hot-loading for auto-refreshing your changes as you save. Just follow the link in the console to load the current App.
npm run build - outputs bundled build files that would be used in production. Configuration is found in webpack/prod.config.js
npm run test - starts up jest testing environment and watch.
npm run analyze - opens a page with bundle analysis, showing everying in the production bundle as squares relative to size.
npm run json - starts a json server that can be used for quickly scaffolding data types and mocking services for components.
This boilerplate comes with a number of tools you can use to quickly author react components. There are a number of components already here to get you started.