jbraithwaite / react-boilerplate

React Boilerplate

What this boilerplate offers

• Server side React rendering
• In development, great debugging experience (live edit React components, simple gulp file)
• In production, best practices for deployment (uglify, gzipped, etc)
• Skeleton for future React projects

Tech stack

• React: A javascript library for building user interfaces
• Express: Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• React Router: A complete routing solution for React.js
• webpack: Module bundler
• BrowserSync: Time-saving synchronised browser testing.
• Gulp: Automate and enhance your workflow
• jade: Node template language
• Sass: Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS - extension language in the world.
• Node-config: Node.js Application Configuration

Installation

# Install node modules
npm install

# Start development
npm run develop

# Build assets for production
npm run compile

# Start server in production
NODE_ENV=production node index.js