react_client_starter_app v0.0.2
#React Client Starter App
There are many starter kits that will help you get started with React and Redux. This is the one created by, maintained by and used by Atomic Jolt. Atomic Jolt uses this as application as a starting place for our Ruby on Rails React starter application and our Firebase React starter appliction.
#Getting Started:
Make sure to install git and npm before you start then:
- git clone https://github.com/atomicjolt/react_client_starter_app.git my_project_name
- Rename .env.example to .env. This file contains the port the server will use. The default 8080 should be fine, but you can also use a local domain or ngrok if you wish.
- npm install
Start server with:
npm run hot
then visit http://localhost:8080
Using the React Client Starter App
Source code lives in the client directory. Modify html and js files in that directory to build your application.
React.js
React code can be found in client/js. We use Redux and the React-Router.
Html
All html files live in client/html. The build process will properly process ejs in any html files as well as process markdown for files that end in .md. All front matter in .md files will be available to the ejs templates. See about.md for an example.
Assets
Any files added to the assets directory can be used by in code and assigned to a variable. This allows for referring to assets using dynamically generated strings. The assets will be built according to the rules specified in your webpack configuration. Typically, this means that in production the names will be changed to include a SHA.
First importing the assets:
import assets from '../libs/assets';
Then assign the assest to a variable:
const img = assets("./images/atomicjolt.jpg");
The value can then be used when rendering: `render(){ const img = assets("./images/atomicjolt.jpg"); return
</div>;
}`
Static
Files added to the static directory will be copied directly into the build. These files will not be renamed.
#Tests
Karma and Jasmine are used for testing. To run tests run:
npm run test
#Check for updates
Inside the client directory run:
npm-check-updates
#Deploy to S3:
Setup credentials. If you've already setup your Amazon credentials in ~/.aws/credentials you will be able to do something similar to the following where atomiclti is one of the AWS profiles found in ~/.aws/credentials:
export AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE=atomiclti export AWS_PROFILE=atomiclti
You can also use a .env file. See the s3-website documentation for more options.
Install the s3-website node package globally:
npm install -g s3-website
Edit configuration.
Open up .s3-website.json and set the desired bucket name
Configure the bucket as a website
npm run create
Deploy.
npm run release
#Production
If you want to see what your application will look like in production run
npm run live
This will serve files from the build/prod directory.
#Deploy:
Build a development release without deploying:
npm run build_dev
Build a release without deploying:
npm run build
Build a release and deploy:
npm run release
License and attribution
MIT
8 years ago