enzovici / react-lab

A playground for experimenting React, Redux and ES6, built with Webpack, Babel transpiler and Mocha test suite.

REACT LAB

Experimenting with REACT

Get Started

1. Install dependencies. npm install
2. Run the app. npm start -s This will run the automated build process, start up a webserver, and open the application in your default browser. When doing development with this kit, this command will continue watching all your files. Every time you hit save the code is rebuilt, linting runs, and tests run automatically. Note: The -s flag is optional. It enables silent mode which suppresses unnecessary messages during the build.

##Initial Machine Setup

1. Install Node 4.0.0 or greater - (5.0 or greater is recommended for optimal build performance). Need to run multiple versions of Node? Use nvm.
2. Install Git.
3. Install React developer tools and Redux Dev Tools in Chrome. (Optional, but helpful. The latter offers time-travel debugging.)
4. On a Mac? You're all set. If you're on Linux or Windows, complete the steps for your OS below.

On Linux:

• Run this to increase the limit on the number of files Linux will watch. echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

On Windows:

• Install Python 2.7. Some node modules may rely on node-gyp, which requires Python on Windows.
• Install C++ Compiler. Browser-sync requires a C++ compiler on Windows. Visual Studio Express comes bundled with a free C++ compiler. Or, if you already have Visual Studio installed: Open Visual Studio and go to File -> New -> Project -> Visual C++ -> Install Visual C++ Tools for Windows Desktop. The C++ compiler is used to compile browser-sync (and perhaps other Node modules).

##Technologies Slingshot offers a rich development experience using the following technologies:

Tech	Description	Learn More
React	Fast, composable client-side components.	Redux
React Router	A complete routing library for React
Babel	Compiles ES6 to ES5. Enjoy the new version of JavaScript today.	ES6 REPL, ES6 vs ES5, ES6 Katas, Webpack
Browsersync	Lightweight development HTTP server that supports synchronized testing and debugging on multiple devices.	Intro vid
Mocha	Automated tests with Chai for assertions and Enzyme for DOM testing without a browser using Node.
Isparta	Code coverage tool for ES6 code transpiled by Babel.
TrackJS	JavaScript error tracking.	Free trial
ESLint	Lint JS. Reports syntax and style issues. Using eslint-plugin-react for additional React specific linting rules.
SASS	Compiled CSS styles with variables, functions, and more.	Editor Config
npm Scripts	Glues all this together in a handy automated build.	Why not Gulp?