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React Quickstart

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Updated: 22 Oct 2014
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[DEPRECATED] React project template with server-side UI rendering and routing

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Overview

The react-quickstart project template is a minimal React project that combines several key features including react-router-component for HTML5 history routing and navigation, react-async for creating asynchronous React components, express for serving pre-rendered React components and assets, and browserify for providing a module system for the browser. The application pre-renders each page on the server, allowing users to see the UI before the client code is shipped to the browser. Once loaded, the application functions as a single page application, enabling seamless navigation between pages without page reloads.

Features

  • React-Router-Component: Provides HTML5 history routing and navigation.
  • React-Async: Allows for the creation of “asynchronous” React components.
  • Express: Serves pre-rendered React components and assets and provides a stub for a REST API.
  • Browserify: Provides a module system for the browser.
  • npm: Installs and manages server-side and client-side dependencies.

Installation

To install the react-quickstart project template, follow these steps:

  1. Clone the git repository.
  2. Install all required dependencies by running npm install.
  3. Start the development server by running npm start.

Once the development server is running, you can start editing the source code. Any changes made will cause the server to reload and the client code bundle to be rebuilt.

For production, you can build an optimized bundle of the client code by running npm run build. This will produce a build of assets/bundle.js. To start the server in “production” mode, run npm run start:prod. This mode disables source code watching and serves the optimized bundle to the browser.

Summary

The react-quickstart project template provides a minimal and efficient setup for developing React applications. By combining key features like react-router-component, react-async, express, and browserify, developers can quickly set up a project with HTML5 history routing, asynchronous components, pre-rendering, and optimized bundling. With an easy-to-use installation process and a customizable project structure, react-quickstart is a great starting point for any React project.