All-in-one application generator enabling the integration of a React front-end and a Ruby-on-Rails API back-end with a CMS via ActiveAdmin.
Image courtesy of Heroku.
This is an easy-to-use generator to implement the modern web application stack described here by Heroku designer Charlie Gleason.
- Ruby
~> 2.5
- Rails
~> 5.2
- Node
^11
: Recommend installing this with NVM. - Yarn
^1.13
: Recommend installing Node separately from this, rather than as a dependency.
$ gem install react-rails-api
$ react-rails
Usage:
react-rails new [PATH]
Options:
[--database], [--no-database] # Integrate ActiveRecord (and Postgres).
# Default: true
Initialise a React/Rails API application.
$ react-rails new demo-app
If the --database
flag is set to true (which is the default), a prompt will also ask if you'd like to integrate ActiveAdmin into the application.
If you would not like to integrate ActiveRecord (and a Postgres database), make sure to use the --no-database
flag:
$ react-rails new demo-app --no-database
There are two rake
tasks that allow you to run development and production builds of an application (using Foreman):
start:development
- Starts a development build of the application (runningProcfile.dev
).start:production
- Starts a production build of the application (runningProcfile
).
-
Error when precompiling assets on Heroku (
failed to load command: webpack
)This is often as a result of the auto-detected Ruby and Node.js buildpacks being ran in the wrong order.
This can be fixed by running the following commands in the application's directory:
$ heroku buildpacks:add heroku/nodejs -i 1 $ heroku buildpacks:add heroku/ruby -i 2
This ensures that
webpack
is installed before trying to precompile the assets.
For more information about how to use this stack, please read the following blog posts by Charlie Gleason: