Idea: Factor out `react-project-server`
dallonf opened this issue · comments
In my projects, I usually like to keep build tools in devDependencies, separate from code that's needed in the app itself (technically dependencies that are only used on the client should be here too, but that way lies madness and missing dependencies in prod, especially when server rendering).
I noticed that the blueprint lists react-project as a full-on production dependency, and as far as I can tell, the only reason that this is necessary is because of the server rendering features. If those were factored out into a separate module, then react-project-server could be under dependencies and react-project could be under devDependencies.
That said, server rendering isn't really a use case I need at the moment (and I'll probably just wind up putting react-project in devDependencies anyways), so I can't give much more feedback on how the separation could work.
Update: After messing around with this a bit, looks like there isn't much support for the concept of devDependencies at all! So that'd be a better place to start, I guess.
Yeah, too early for me to think about factoring parts out, but I know there's a react-router-addons-express in there somewhere. Need to keep using this thing to do it right.
The wrong abstraction is way worse than the wrong one :)
I like to do git push deployment, like heroku, so the production box's npm install needs all of that stuff for the build.