@infinizhen/react-webpack-babel-boilerplate NPM

REACT18-WEBPACK5-BABEL7 BOILERPLATE

This is a really simple and minimalistic React 18, Webpack 5 and Babel 7 boilerplate project.

By simple and minimalistic i mean simple and minimalistic. It is just that. A simple project, with the most common dependencies (both prod and dev) for a minimal React project setup.

It doesn't include any test suites or CSS frameworks. It doesn't even include a router.

Project goal

The goal is to save me (and maybe you) like 10 or 15 minutes setting up the things i will need to use on every new react project. Sometimes i don't need CSS, sometimes i don't test dumb things, sometimes a project doesn't even feature a single link.

So that's why is this simple. This is my bare minimum to start working on even the most trivial of projects.

Usage

Install with npm and execute with npx!

Install globally with npm:

npm i @infinizhen/react-webpack-babel-boilerplate -g

Then you can run the package a là CRA:

npx infinizhen your-app

npx react-webpack-babel-boilerplate my-app

Clone the repo!

git clone https://github.com/Infinizhen/react-webpack-babel-boilerplate.git

Project Structure

The project structure is just suited to my most common needs. It is not important and obviously you don't need to follow that structure at all.

All the code is stored in /src.
The entry point of the project is /src/index.js. This file renders a one-liner placeholder Component in that very file wich its only intention is to act as, well... a placeholder. It just renders a strings confiriming everything went okay when you run the app for the first time.
I usually write a layout component/s wich then will show other components, these are stored in /src/layout/.
Then i also usually diferentiate between "components" and "controls" even if they both are technically components, so i separate them in /src/components/ and /src/controls/ respectively.
Webpack is configured to build a bundle.js in the /public folder, using /src/index.html as the template.

package.json scripts

The most easy ones for webpack 5:

serve runs npm run webpack serve --mode development
build runs npm run webpack --mode production

Configurations

Webpack

It has the babel loader, and the style / css loader. Even if this project comes with no css frameworks or files, this configuration is included for obvious reasons.

It also features html-webpack-plugin and mini-css-extract-plugin.