This is the React comment box example from the React tutorial converted to use webpack, import/export statements, and class definition syntax all transpiled by Babel.
My intention was to keep this simple and static so no additional backend server is needed. This was also a primer for me getting up to speed with React using patterns my co-workers have established. There are no calls to fetch or persist data into a datastore. Data is provided by Google Books open GET api using reqwest which is a bit divergent from the original tutorial. I also removed the use of Markdown and dangerouslySetInnerHTML which it incurs. I'm not sure why the folks at Facebook decided to include it as part of their flagship tutorial.
git clone git@github.com:philmill/reactutn.gitcd reactutnnpm inpm start
This starts an instance of webpack-dev-server and can be viewed by visiting either localhost:8080 to see committed build or if you want to modify sources with hot module reloading visit localhost:8080/webpack-dev-server/
Note: the dev server doesn't overwrite build assets, instead HMR are are served from memory.