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Getting Started

Requirements

  • Mac OS X, Windows, or Linux
  • Node.js v5.0 or newer
  • npm v3.3 or newer (new to npm?)
  • node-gyp prerequisites mentioned here
  • Text editor or IDE pre-configured with React/JSX/Flow/ESlint (learn more)

Quick Start

1. Get the latest version

You can start by cloning the latest version of React Starter Kit (RSK) on your local machine by running:

$ git clone -o react-starter-kit -b master --single-branch \
      https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit.git MyApp
$ cd MyApp

Alternatively, you can start a new project based on RSK right from WebStorm IDE, or by using Yeoman generator.

2. Run npm install

This will install both run-time project dependencies and developer tools listed in package.json file.

3. Run npm start

This command will build the app from the source files (/src) into the output /build folder. As soon as the initial build completes, it will start the Node.js server (node build/server.js) and Browsersync with HMR on top of it.

Now you can open your web app in a browser, on mobile devices and start hacking. Whenever you modify any of the source files inside the /src folder, the module bundler (Webpack) will recompile the app on the fly and refresh all the connected browsers.

browsersync

Note that the npm start command launches the app in development mode, the compiled output files are not optimized and minimized in this case. You can use --release command line argument to check how your app works in release (production) mode:

$ npm start -- --release

How to Build, Test, Deploy

If you need just to build the app (without running a dev server), simply run:

$ npm run build

or, for a production build:

$ npm run build -- --release

After running this command, the /build folder will contain the compiled version of the app. For example, you can launch Node.js server normally by running node build/server.js.

To check the source code for syntax errors and potential issues run:

$ npm run lint

To launch unit tests:

$ npm test

Test any javascript module by creating a __tests__/ directory where the file is. Append -test.js to the filename and Jest will do the rest.

To deploy the app, run:

$ npm run deploy

The deployment script tools/deploy.js is configured to push the contents of the /build folder to a remote server via Git. You can easily deploy your app to Azure Web Apps, or Heroku this way. Both will execute npm install --production upon receiving new files from you. Note, you should only deploy the contents of the /build folder to a remote server.

How to Update

If you need to keep your project up to date with the recent changes made to RSK, you can always fetch and merge them from this repo back into your own project by running:

$ git checkout master
$ git fetch react-starter-kit
$ git merge react-starter-kit/master
$ npm install