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I created it in order to make practice with React, Redux, and React-Router!
Built with React Redux Starter Kit
- Features
- Requirements
- Getting Started
- Application Structure
- Development
- Developer Tools
- Routing
- Testing
- Deployment
- Build System
- Configuration
- Root Resolve
- Globals
- Styles
- Server
- Production Optimization
- Learning Resources
- FAQ
- Thank You
- node
^4.2.0
- npm
^3.0.0
After confirming that your development environment meets the specified requirements, you can follow these steps to get the project up and running:
$ git clone https://github.com/davezuko/react-redux-starter-kit.git
$ cd react-redux-starter-kit
$ npm install # Install project dependencies
$ npm start # Compile and launch
While developing, you will probably rely mostly on npm start
; however, there are additional scripts at your disposal:
npm run <script> |
Description |
---|---|
start |
Serves your app at localhost:3000 . HMR will be enabled in development. |
compile |
Compiles the application to disk (~/dist by default). |
dev |
Same as npm start , but enables nodemon for the server as well. |
dev:no-debug |
Same as npm run dev but disables devtool instrumentation. |
test |
Runs unit tests with Karma and generates a coverage report. |
test:dev |
Runs Karma and watches for changes to re-run tests; does not generate coverage reports. |
deploy |
Runs linter, tests, and then, on success, compiles your application to disk. |
deploy:dev |
Same as deploy but overrides NODE_ENV to "development". |
deploy:prod |
Same as deploy but overrides NODE_ENV to "production". |
lint |
Lint all .js files. |
lint:fix |
Lint and fix all .js files. Read more on this. |
The application structure presented in this boilerplate is fractal, where functionality is grouped primarily by feature rather than file type. Please note, however, that this structure is only meant to serve as a guide, it is by no means prescriptive. That said, it aims to represent generally accepted guidelines and patterns for building scalable applications. If you wish to read more about this pattern, please check out this awesome writeup by Justin Greenberg.
.
├── bin # Build/Start scripts
├── blueprints # Blueprint files for redux-cli
├── build # All build-related configuration
│ └── webpack # Environment-specific configuration files for webpack
├── config # Project configuration settings
├── interfaces # Type declarations for Flow
├── server # Koa application (uses webpack middleware)
│ └── main.js # Server application entry point
├── src # Application source code
│ ├── main.js # Application bootstrap and rendering
│ ├── components # Reusable Presentational Components
│ ├── containers # Reusable Container Components
│ ├── layouts # Components that dictate major page structure
│ ├── static # Static assets (not imported anywhere in source code)
│ ├── styles # Application-wide styles (generally settings)
│ ├── store # Redux-specific pieces
│ │ ├── createStore.js # Create and instrument redux store
│ │ └── reducers.js # Reducer registry and injection
│ └── routes # Main route definitions and async split points
│ ├── index.js # Bootstrap main application routes with store
│ ├── Root.js # Wrapper component for context-aware providers
│ └── Home # Fractal route
│ ├── index.js # Route definitions and async split points
│ ├── assets # Assets required to render components
│ ├── components # Presentational React Components
│ ├── container # Connect components to actions and store
│ ├── modules # Collections of reducers/constants/actions
│ └── routes ** # Fractal sub-routes (** optional)
└── tests # Unit tests
We recommend using the Redux DevTools Chrome Extension. Using the chrome extension allows your monitors to run on a separate thread and affords better performance and functionality. It comes with several of the most popular monitors, is easy to configure, filters actions, and doesn’t require installing any packages.
However, adding the DevTools components to your project is simple. First, grab the packages from npm:
npm i --save-dev redux-devtools redux-devtools-log-monitor redux-devtools-dock-monitor
Then follow the manual integration walkthrough.
We use react-router
route definitions (<route>/index.js
) to define units of logic within our application. See the application structure section for more information.
To add a unit test, simply create a .spec.js
file anywhere in ~/tests
. Karma will pick up on these files automatically, and Mocha and Chai will be available within your test without the need to import them. If you are using redux-cli
, test files should automatically be generated when you create a component or redux module (duck).
Coverage reports will be compiled to ~/coverage
by default. If you wish to change what reporters are used and where reports are compiled, you can do so by modifying coverage_reporters
in ~/config/index.js
.
Out of the box, this starter kit is deployable by serving the ~/dist
folder generated by npm run deploy
(make sure to specify your target NODE_ENV
as well). This project does not concern itself with the details of server-side rendering or API structure, since that demands an opinionated structure that makes it difficult to extend the starter kit. However, if you do need help with more advanced deployment strategies, here are a few tips:
If you are serving the application via a web server such as nginx, make sure to direct incoming routes to the root ~/dist/index.html
file and let react-router take care of the rest. The Koa server that comes with the starter kit is able to be extended to serve as an API or whatever else you need, but that's entirely up to you.
Have more questions? Feel free to submit an issue or join the Gitter chat!
Default project configuration can be found in ~/config/index.js
. Here you'll be able to redefine your src
and dist
directories, adjust compilation settings, tweak your vendor dependencies, and more. For the most part, you should be able to make changes in here without ever having to touch the actual webpack build configuration.
If you need environment-specific overrides (useful for dynamically setting API endpoints, for example), you can edit ~/config/environemnts.js
and define overrides on a per-NODE_ENV basis. There are examples for both development
and production
, so use those as guidelines. Here are some common configuration options:
Key | Description |
---|---|
dir_src |
application source code base path |
dir_dist |
path to build compiled application to |
server_host |
hostname for the Koa server |
server_port |
port for the Koa server |
compiler_css_modules |
whether or not to enable CSS modules |
compiler_devtool |
what type of source-maps to generate (set to false /null to disable) |
compiler_vendor |
packages to separate into to the vendor bundle |
Webpack is configured to make use of resolve.root, which lets you import local packages as if you were traversing from the root of your ~/src
directory. Here's an example:
// current file: ~/src/views/some/nested/View.js
// What used to be this:
import SomeComponent from '../../../components/SomeComponent'
// Can now be this:
import SomeComponent from 'components/SomeComponent' // Hooray!
These are global variables available to you anywhere in your source code. If you wish to modify them, they can be found as the globals
key in ~/config/index.js
. When adding new globals, make sure you also add them to ~/.eslintrc
.
Variable | Description |
---|---|
process.env.NODE_ENV |
the active NODE_ENV when the build started |
__DEV__ |
True when process.env.NODE_ENV is development |
__PROD__ |
True when process.env.NODE_ENV is production |
__TEST__ |
True when process.env.NODE_ENV is test |
__DEBUG__ |
True when process.env.NODE_ENV is development and cli arg --no_debug is not set (npm run dev:no-debug ) |
__BASENAME__ |
npm history basename option |
Both .scss
and .css
file extensions are supported out of the box and are configured to use CSS Modules. After being imported, styles will be processed with PostCSS for minification and autoprefixing, and will be extracted to a .css
file during production builds.
This starter kit comes packaged with an Koa server. It's important to note that the sole purpose of this server is to provide webpack-dev-middleware
and webpack-hot-middleware
for hot module replacement. Using a custom Koa app in place of webpack-dev-server will makes it easier for users to extend the starter kit to include functionality such as back-end API's, universal rendering, and more -- all without bloating the base boilerplate.
Babel is configured to use babel-plugin-transform-runtime so transforms aren't inlined. Additionally, in production, we use react-optimize to further optimize your React code.
In production, webpack will extract styles to a standalone file, minify your JavaScript, and perform additional optimizations such as module deduplication.