React Starter

A basic template that consists of the essential elements that are required to start building a Single Page Application using React, React Router, Redux, Bootstrap 4, Sass, and Webpack.

Although I am calling this project a template of sorts, it is also a mini application in that it demonstrates a full verticle slice of the architecture. What this means, is that there is an example of Redux and React-Router in action. I kept the example simple by providing data via a 'Zip Code JSON file'.

The template consists of:

• a typcial project layout structure
• a Babel setup and configuration
• a Webpack setup and configuration
• an ESLint setup and configuration
• a SCSS setup and configuration
• a sample React component to display list codes
• a Redux setup to handle zip codes state
• a React Router setup to show basic navigation

Additionaly, the template provides a development and production webpack configuration.

The template also allows one to include specific plugins as part of build. Please see here for more detail

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Showcase

Desktop

Mobile

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Developed With

• Visual Studio Code - A source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring
• Node.js - Javascript runtime
• React - A javascript library for building user interfaces
• React Router - Declarative routing for React
• Redux - Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps.
• Redux-Promise-Middleware - Redux middleware for promises, async functions and conditional optimistic updates
• Redux-Thunk - Thunk middleware for Redux
• Babel - A transpiler for javascript
• Webpack - A module bundler
• SCSS - A css metalanguage
• Bootstrap 4 - Bootstrap is an open source toolkit for developing with HTML, CSS, and JS
• Surge - Static web publishing for Front-End Developers

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The following software is required to be installed on your system:

• Node 8.x
• Npm 3.x

Type the following commands in the terminal to verify your node and npm versions

node -v
npm -v

Install

Follow the following steps to get development environment running.

• Clone 'react-redux-starter' repository from GitHub

  git clone https://github.com/drminnaar/react-redux-starter.git

  OR USING SSH

  git clone [email protected]:drminnaar/react-redux-starter.git

• Install node modules

  cd react-redux-starter
  npm install

Build

Build Application

dev	prod
npm run build:dev	npm run build:prod

Build Application And Watch For Changes

dev	prod
npm run build:dev:watch	npm run build:prod:watch

Build Application With BundleAnalayzer Plugin Included

dev	prod
npm run build:dev:bundleanalyze	npm run build:prod:bundleanalyze

After running the above command, a browser window will open displaying an interactive graph resembling the following image:

Build Application With BundleBuddy Plugin Included

dev	prod
npm run build:dev:bundlebuddy	npm run build:prod:bundlebuddy

Run ESlint

Lint Project Using ESLint

npm run lint

Lint Project Using ESLint, and autofix

npm run lint:fix

Run

Run Start

This will run the 'serve:dev' npm task

npm start

Run Dev Server

npm run serve:dev

Run Dev Server With Dashboard

npm run serve:dev:dashboard

The above command will display a dashboard view in your console resembling the following image:

Run Prod Server

This command will build application using production settings and start the application using live-server

npm run serve:prod

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Versioning

I use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

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Authors

• Douglas Minnaar - Initial work - drminnaar