A starting point.
React frontend, Express backend.
Out of the box features:
- Socket.io connection
- VSCode debugging for backend
- Easily deployable to Google Cloud Run
Uses Node v18
Node versions here
To deploy the app you can follow these steps:
from the frontend directory:
npm run build
This will create a production build of the frontend in the backend/public directory.
from the backend directory:
gcloud run deploy
It's really that easy.
React app set up with Vite. Details of that here.
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev
Runs on localhost:3000. Available on your local network. Requests to the backend are proxied by the dev server.
Express. Nodemon for development.
cd backend
npm install
npm run start
Listens on port 3001
- express
- dotenv
- socket.io
- nodemon