An express.js server with additional tooling set up for react.js. Ideal for starting off a personal project, or a hackathon just right

Install the dependencies. This is done with yarn (recommended), or plain ol' npm install (also pretty good).

To streamline the entire setup, a yarn setup script is present. It does the following:

• Installs dependencies
• Removes the link to my git repo
• Generates some self-signed SSL certificates for local HTTPS

React is set up under src/client with react-router-4 for client-side routing.

• An example router is setup under src/client/router.jsx
• A default layout is setup under src/client/components/layout.jsx
• Pages can be found under src/client/components/pages
• Webpack is setup to resolve files with the following extensions:
  • .jsx
  • .js
  • .css
  • .json
  • Files with these extensions can be imported as import { x } from './myFile' and webpack will worry about the extension.

This is an express server, with the HTTP server exposed (under bin/www). You can easily swap this out for a HTTPS server and include your certificates. Running the app is simple:

• npm start

If you're deploying to Heroku - a Procfile is setup for you. Use heroku local. The package local-env-var is included to load from your .env.

Because we're using React with JSX, the JSX has to be built. A polyfill (set up to ie >= 11) is provided.

• npm build

If you want to keep building after a file's saved:

• npm run watch

Note: This boilerplate includes a service worker, setup to cache the bundle and index file.

To ensure that you can view your changes, in the developer console, go to application, click 'service workers' and select 'bypass for network'.

The code for the worker is under public/javascripts/worker.js.