react-express-hotloader v1.0.6

React Express Hotloader

I know there's a lot of boilerplate examples, but it was actually kinda hard to find this exact combination:

• React
• Express server
• Auto-reloading Express server (only in development)
• react-hot-loader (version 3) running on Express (only in development)
• Babel for both React frontend and Express backend
• EJS templates

Hence, I made this.

This is a "universal JavaScript" web-server. But, this is isn't a "complete universal React" app, because:

• No server-side rendering
• No react-router
• No redux
• No webpacking minifier for client-side JavaScript includes

I didn't include those things because I think they introduce a lot more complexity for people who are just trying to get started. This is more geared towards building something fast, not building a monolithic React SPA.

Install and run

In development:

npm install
npm start

In production:

npm install --production
npm run build
npm run serve

Authors

• Richard Gong

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see LICENSE.md file for details