React Essentials Boilerplate

This project is a simple React boilerplate to easily and quickly start on a new React project.

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

What comes with this Boilerplate?

The React Essentials Boilerplate features a few of the most common and necessary libs to create a modern and expandable React App:

React

Create great apps with React.js.

Typescript

Use Typescript to streamline, build, validate and better document your code.

Material-UI

Material-UI provides powerful responsive Material Design components to work with in React and create beautiful and customizable themes for your app.

React-Router

Create great Single Page Applications with React-Router.

Redux

Manage your React App's State and make component communication easy with Redux.

Thunk

Extend Redux by adding the Thunk middleware, providing better control over sync or async Actions.

Jest

Create unit tests and future-proof your App with Jest.

Motivation

This boilerplate was created mainly to streamline the start process of my own React projects, as i realized that i commonly use these libs and follow this same project architecture. Hopefully, this will also be useful to you!

How to use

First, make sure you've got the latest stable releases for Node.js and NPM.

shallow clone this project:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate.git <YOUR_PROJECT_NAME>

Move into the cloned repository:

cd <YOUR_PROJECT_NAME>.

Create your own repo with these commands:

rm -rf .git

git init

git add .

git commit -m "Initial commit"

git remote add origin <YOUR_REPO_ADDRESS>

git push origin master

Done! Now you can start coding and freely modify the boilerplate.

Useful commands(provided by create-react-app)

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.

Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.

You will also see any lint errors in the console.

npm test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.

See the section about running tests for more information.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.

It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.

Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

npm run eject

Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can’t go back!

If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.

Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.

You don’t have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.

Learn More

You can learn more in the Create React App documentation.

To learn React, check out the React documentation.