universal-react-app

Yet another Universal React app example.

Install

npm install

Development

In development you can either use your local environment or the docker version with docker-compose.

Local environment

npm start

Then browse http://localhost:3000

Docker-compose

docker-compose up

Then browse http://localhost:3000

Production

The docker-compose.prod.yml is provided as an example for a docker production usage. Both the client and server dockerfile present in docker/ uses multi-stage build to keep the devDependencies at bay.

Frontend

The frontend is a nginx:alpine with some nginx presets from h5bp. It serves the built version of the client dist/client.js along with the public/ directory.

Backend

The backend is a node:alpine that just run the built version of the server dist/server.js.

Usage

docker-compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up

Presentation

The ES6 syntax is used throughout the project along with some ES7 proposals.

Stack

• react for components
• redux for state management
• react-router-redux as a router
• jss as the CSS in Js solution.
• material-ui React components that implement Google's Material Design.
• express
• pino as the logger - similar to Bunyan - with a smoother browser integration.
• webpack as the module bundle for the client and server.

Folder structure

The source of this app are available under src/ and are split between 3 directories, client, common and server:

├── client
│   ├── Components/App.js
│   ├── index.js
│   ├── store.js
│   └── history.js
├── common
│   ├── actions
│   ├── Components
│   ├── constants
│   ├── Pages
│   ├── reducers
│   ├── styles
│   ├── configureStore.js
│   ├── theme.js
│   └── routes.js
└── server
    ├── Components/App.js
    ├── appHandler.js
    ├── index.js
    ├── store.js
    └── history.js

Configuration

Application level configuration is available as environment variables, the default are provided by the config key in the package.json:

...
"config": {
    "port": "3000"
},
...

This variable, for example is made available by npm-scripts in the package.json and the application itself as npm_package_config_port.

Webpack

To build things up there are 2 webpack config files that handles both server and client contexts as well as production and development environments:

• webpack.client.babel.js

The client configuration uses extract-npm-package-config along with the webpack.EnvironmentPlugin to replace the npm_package_config_* variables with their values.

• webpack.server.babel.js

Licence

MIT