Relay Fullstack

Relay Fullstack is a Relay scaffolding application that aims to help you get up and running a project without worrying about integrating tools. It comes with many modern technologies; Relay, GraphQL, Express, ES6/ES7, JSX, Webpack, Babel, Material Design Lite, and PostCSS. Relay Fullstack is also using Hot-reload to real time update the screen whenever any code changes.

Example

Usage

Clone the repository to your local directory

$ git clone https://github.com/lvarayut/relay-fullstack.git
$ cd relay-fullstack

Install all dependencies & Start developing

$ npm install
$ npm start

Launch your favorite web browser and go to http://localhost:3000 for Relay application or http://localhost:8000 for GraphiQL.

Deployment

In order to deploy a project, it is a good practice to minify all JavaScript files, Stop spawning GraphiQL server, pull off some duplicate dependencies, and remove all unnecessary scripts, for example, Hot-reload. All of these can be done by executing the following command:

$ npm run deploy

Again, launch your favorite web browser and go to http://localhost:3000.

Schema

Whenever you start a server, it will automatically execute updateSchema.js script in order to compile the schema definitions, defined in schema.js, to schema.json and schema.graphql. This is required by Relay framework. However, you could also run the script manually:

$ npm run update

Project Structure

├── client                          - All of the client side code resides in this folder
│   ├── assets                      - Images and fonts
│   ├── components                  - Relay containers, React components, and SCSS files used in the components
│   │   └── variables.scss          - Common SCSS variables
│   ├── routes                      - React-router-relay 
│   │   ├── Route.js                - All routes definitions
│   │   └── ViewerQuery.js          - Entry node of a GraphQL query
│   ├── index.html                  - HTML template file used to by html-webpack-plugin 
│   └── index.js                    - Client entry point
├── server                          - All of the server side code resides in this folder
│   ├── config                      - Configuration 
│   │   └── environment             - Saparate configuration for each environment
│   │       ├── development.js      - Development configuration
│   │       ├── index.js            - Common configuration used in any environment
│   │       ├── production.js       - Production configuration
│   │       └── test.js             - Test configuration
│   ├── data                        - Data and APIs 
│   │   ├── database.js             - Mock up database which should be replaced with your real database logic
│   │   ├── schema.graphql          - Compiled schema in a readable form
│   │   ├── schema.js               - Schema definitions
│   │   └── schema.json             - Compiled schema to be used by Relay 
│   ├── utils                       - Utilities 
│   │   ├── babelRelayPlugin.js     - babel-relay-plugin provided by Relay
│   │   └── updateSchema.js         - Code for compiling the defined schema to schema.json and schema.graphql
│   └── index.js                    - Server entry point
├── package.json                    - List of dependencies
├── webpack.config.js               - Webpack configuration for development environment
└── webpack.production.config.js    - Webpack configuration for production environment

Technologies

Frameworks

Relay - A JavaScript framework for building data-driven react applications. It is required to be used with React and GraphQL.

React - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It introduces many great concepts, such as, Virtual DOM, Data flow, etc.

GraphQL - GraphQL is a query language and execution engine tied to any backend service.

Express - Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.

Module bundler & Syntax transformers

Webpack - Webpack is a module bundler that takes modules with dependencies and generates static assets representing those modules.

Babel - Babel is a JavaScript compiler which allows you to use next generation, ES6/ES7, JavaScript, today.

Languages

ES6/ES7 - ECMAScript 6, also known as ECMAScript 2015, is the latest version of the ECMAScript standard. ES6 is a significant update to the language.

JSX - JSX is a JavaScript syntax extension that looks similar to XML. You can use a simple JSX syntactic transform with React.

Designs

Material Design Lite - Material Design Lite lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your websites.

PostCSS - PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript. It has roughly 200 plugins to help you write CSS easier.

Credits

• Relay Fullstack is inspired by relay-starter-kit. Please take a look at the original code to learn more.
• Handcrafted with ♥ by Varayut Lerdkanlayanawat.

License

The MIT License