Many of the web applications that you use today have real-time functionality where the user does not have to reload the page in order to see updates. Major examples of these include Slack, Twitter and Facebook.
Chatty APP will allow users to communicate with each other without having to register accounts. It use React, a popular front-end library created and used heavily by Facebook as well as modern tools for Node including Webpack and Babel.
Clone the boilerplate and create your own git repo.
git clone [email protected]:lighthouse-labs/react-simple-boilerplate.git
cd react-simple-boilerplate
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin [YOUR NEW REPOSITORY]
# Manually update your package.json file
Install the dependencies and start the server.
npm install
npm start
open http://localhost:3000
You can store static files like images, fonts, etc in the build folder.
For example, if you copy a file called my_image.png into the build folder you can access it using http://localhost:3000/build/my_image.png.
This boilerplate project includes React ESLint configuration.
npm run lint
- React
- Webpack
- node-sass
- eslint
- css-loader
- babel-loader
- webpack-dev-server