React seed

A boilerplate for building React apps with ES6 and webpack.

What you get

React 0.13
ES6, ES7 & JSX to ES5 via babel
webpack with react hot loader, and other useful loaders
Local CSS
Karma, mocha, chai & sinon for testing with mocking examples
Basic flux architecture with app actions, stores and example web API usage
React router (feature/react-router)
Material UI (feature/material-ui)

Getting started

Installing with git

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/badsyntax/react-seed.git my-project

Installing with yeoman

npm install -g yo
npm install -g generator-react-seed
Use the generator like so: yo react-seed

npm scripts

npm start - Build and start the app in dev mode at http://localhost:8000
npm test - Run the tests
npm run build - Run a production build

Examples

### Writing components:

// Filename: Menu.jsx

'use strict';

import styles from './_Menu.scss';
import React from 'react';
import MenuItem from './MenuItem';

let { Component, PropTypes } = React;

export default class Menu extends Component {

  static defaultProps = {
    items: []
  };

  static propTypes = {
    items: PropTypes.array.isRequired
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <ul className={styles.menu}>
        {this.props.items.map((item) => {
          return (<MenuItem item={item} />);
        }, this)}
      </ul>
    );
  }
}

###Writing tests:

// Filename: __tests__/Menu-test.jsx

'use strict';

import React from 'react/addons';
import { expect } from 'chai';

import Menu from '../Menu.jsx';
import MenuItem from '../MenuItem.jsx';

// Here we create a mocked MenuItem component.
class MockedMenuItem extends MenuItem {
  render() {
    return (
      <li className={'mocked-menu-item'}>{this.props.item.label}</li>
    );
  }
}

// Here we set the mocked MenuItem component.
Menu.__Rewire__('MenuItem', MockedMenuItem);

describe('Menu', () => {

  let { TestUtils } = React.addons;

  let menuItems = [
    { id: 1, label: 'Option 1' },
    { id: 2, label: 'Option 2' }
  ];

  let menu = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(
    <Menu items={menuItems} />
  );
  let menuElem = React.findDOMNode(menu);
  let items = menuElem.querySelectorAll('li');

  it('Should render the menu items', () => {
    expect(items.length).to.equal(2);
  });

  it('Should render the menu item labels', () => {
    Array.prototype.forEach.call(items, (item, i) => {
      expect(item.textContent.trim()).to.equal(menuItems[i].label);
    });
  })

  it('Should render the mocked menu item', () => {
    expect(items[0].className).to.equal('mocked-menu-item');
  });
});

Sass, CSS & webpack

import Sass and CSS files from within your JavaScript component files:

// Filename: app.jsx
import 'normalize.css/normalize.css';
import styles from './scss/app.scss';

Note: If you're importing component Sass files from within your JavaScript component files, then each sass file will be compiled as part of a different compile process, and thus you cannot share global references. See this issue for more information.
Sass include paths can be adjusted in the webpack/loaders.js file.
All CSS (compiled or otherwise) is run through Autoprefixer and style-loader. Any images/fonts etc referenced in the CSS will be copied to the build dir.
CSS files are combined in the order in which they are imported in JavaScript, thus you should always import your CSS/Sass before importing any other JavaScript files.
If not using local CSS, use an approach like BEM to avoid specificity issues that might exist due to unpredicatable order of CSS rules.

HTML files

All required .html files are compiled with lodash.template and synced into the ./build directory:

// Filename: app.jsx
import './index.html';

You can adjust the lodash template data in the webpack/loaders.js file.

Conventions

Use fat arrows for anonymous functions
Don't use var. Use let and const.

Releasing

npm version patch
git push --follow-tags
npm login (Optional)
npm publish

Credits

This project was initially forked from https://github.com/tcoopman/react-es6-browserify

License

MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

rchodava/react-seed