Helic-react-config NPM

Helic React Configuration

Node Version

create-react-app adverties no build configuration and they mean it - you cannot configure this tool.

The most glaring missing piece is CSS prepocessors. They are not supported at all. That means:

no CSS Modules
no PostCSS plugins

If you want to add or change anything, you have to eject. Running npm run eject spits out all the configuration files so you can edit them yourself.

It's great to have this option, but if you do it your are left with all the disadvantages of any other starter pack (many dependencies, config boilerplate, no ability to receive updates).

With helic-react-config you have still most of the important advantages of create-react-app (with a much smaller codebase), and can still configure your build as you like.

The helic-react-config configuration is meant as a great start configuration outsourced as devDependency. It includes:

React, JSX, and ES6 support
Webpack 2
A dev server with hot reloading
Linting via eslint and stylelint
Testing via jest and enzyme
CSS Modules and PostCSS (with postcss-import and postcss-cssnext)
A build script to bundle JS, CSS and other files for production
Downloading private SVN modules if needed via svn-modules

ToDo

add vendor chunk for prod
add htmlwebpackplugin
enzyme is a devdependency and should stay there
Readme
Test for propTypes
customization