TUtutuca·Aug 18, 2016Submission
React-slingshot: React and Redux starter kit with all built in
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react-slingshot
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coryhouse / react-slingshot
react-slingshot
React + Redux starter kit / boilerplate with Babel, hot reloading, testing, linting and a working example app built in
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React + Redux starter kit / boilerplate with Babel, hot reloading, testing, linting and a working example app built in
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5 sourcesI found here the best combination. I am not using redux.
https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot
In Ask HN: What is a good React stack?https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot is my go to boilerplate.
In Why We Moved to ReactThe article mentions two good working examples that do everything you mentioned and more:
https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot
https://github.com/kriasoft/react-starter-kit
In Why I Left Gulp and Grunt for Npm ScriptsI've a good few years web programming experience: Rails, PHP, HTML/CSS/JS (jQuery), SQL, ... you get the idea. Apart from keeping up to date with Rails nothing 'modern'.
I've spent the last week (finally!) trying and in the end succeeding to wrap my head around React+Redux. It took a many many many hours of puzzlement. I began with the react+slingshot[0] @coryhouse made as a starter kit and going through the React docs and Redux docs. I guess my desire stemmed from seeing Dan's demo of Redux's time-travel and hot reloading ability, I was intrigued. I copied the TODO example from the Redux docs and fashioned it to my liking exploring all the parts.
I'm here to tell you that it's not easy. The landscape is still in flux (buh-dum-tish, I'll be here all week folks) and that for every piece of the dev tool puzzle you've two or three options.
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think you can get away with React+Redux on the client side which replaces the V in your MVC. {This in practice means the `react', `react-dom', `react-redux', and `redux' files. _Everything_ else is tooling, but my God so much tooling}. YMMV.
That's as far as I'd go, otherwise you're throwing out all your server-side dev experience, and why would you want to do that?
What I'd like to ask folks is: what happens to my nice static HTML/CSS pages if React+Redux is all JS? Server-side rendering? I'll come back and edit this and put in a few more links I found handy. Do believe the hype, React+Redux is pretty neat.
[0] https://github.com/coryhouse/react-slingshot
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React docs: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/getting-started.html
React DevTools: https://github.com/facebook/react/wiki/Complementary-Tools
The Video: Dan Abramov - Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel at react-europe 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs
Redux docs: http://rackt.org/redux/docs/basics/index.html
Redux DevTools: https://github.com/gaearon/redux-devtools/