React Static

A progressive static-site generator for React.

Read the introduction article on Medium

React-Static is a fast, lightweight, and powerful framework for building static-progressive React applications and websites. It's been carefully designed to meet the highest standards of SEO, site performance, and user/developer experience.

Features

• ⚛️ 100% React (or Preact!)
• 🚀 Blazing fast builds and performance.
• 🚚 Data Agnostic. Supply your site with data from anywhere, however you want.
• ✂️ Automatic code and data splitting for routes!
• 💥 Instant page views via PRPL pattern.
• 🎯 Built for SEO.
• 🥇 React-first developer experience.
• 😌 Painless project setup & migration.
• 💯 Supports 100% of the React ecosystem. Including CSS-in-JS libraries, custom Query layers like GraphQL, and even Redux.
• 🔥 Hot Reloadable out-of-the-box. Edit React components & styles in real-time.
• 📲 LAN accessible dev environment for testing on other devices like phones and tablets.

Videos & Tutorials

• Quick Start with Styled Components (20 min)
• Introducing React-Static! How it works and why we built it! (80 min)
• Using React-Static to replace create-react-app (5 min)

Sites Built with React-Static

• React-Static.js.org (source)
• React-Charts.js.org (source)
• Nozzle.io (source)
• Timber.io
• HeadlessCMS.org (source)
• Manta.life (source)
• Manticore Games
• BlackSandSolutions.co
• David York - Personal Blog
• Cryptagon - Crypto Portfolio Tracker
• Typetalk - Chat App for Businesses and Teams
• This Is Our Home - eCommerce
• Lam Hieu - Personal Website
• Elsa Salonen - Artist Portfolio
• PSD Wizard: On-demand Front-End Coding Service
• NYC Vintage Map
• Eldar Labs - Utilities and Productivity Tools
• Dan Webb - Personal Website (source)
• Intuit Turbo
• Messenger Corp. client asset ordering
• Digital Neighborhood watch service
• Carmen Marcos Art - Artist Portfolio (source)

Quick Start

1. Install the CLI:

$ yarn global add react-static
# or
$ npm install -g react-static

2. Create a new project:

$ react-static create

3. Pick a template! See the full list of templates
4. Navigate to your new project:

$ cd my-static-site

5. Start the dev server and edit some code!

$ yarn start # or react-static start

6. Test a production build

$ yarn stage # or react-static build --staging
$ yarn serve

6. Build for production!

$ yarn build # or react-static build

Once you've installed and test driven sufficiently, you may want to:

• Read about the core concepts of React Static
• Join the slack organization!

• Familiarize yourself with the API and all that is possible!

Examples and Templates

All of the following examples can be used as a template at project creation.

• Basic
• Blank (Create-React-App)
• Preact
• Animated Routes
• Custom Routing
• Dynamic Imports (code-splitting)
• Firebase Auth
• Glamorous & Tailwind CSS
• Glamorous
• LESS & Antdesign
• Styled-Components
• Redux
• Apollo GraphQL
• Apollo & Redux
• TypeScript
• Cordova (Hybrid App)
• Basic Prismic (Headless CMS)
• GraphCMS
• Sass
• Tailwind CSS
• Algolia
• Styled-JSX
• Netlify CMS
• Gentics Mesh CMS
• Markdown
• Documentation

Can't find an example? We invite you to write one! Simply copy the basic or blank templates and make the necessary changes. Then submit a PR including your new example directory and a new item in the list above. When merged, your example will automatically become a template in the CLI. How magical!

Documentation

Core Concepts

API Reference

Changelog

Contributing Guide

Chat with us on Slack!

Need some help? Have a quick question? Click here to sign up for the React-Tools slack org, and join us in the #react-static channel! We are constantly answering questions, discussing features and helping each other out!

Contributing

We are always looking for people to help us grow react-static's capabilities and examples. If you have an issue, feature request, or pull request, let us know!

License

React Static uses the MIT license. For more information on this license, click here.