React seed

A boilerplate for building React apps with ES6 and webpack.

What you get

• React 0.13
• Compilation of ES6, ES7 & JSX to ES5 via babel
• webpack with react hot loader (also html, css, sass and other useful loaders)
• Karma, mocha, chai & sinon for testing
• Basic flux architecture with app actions, stores and example web API usage
• React router (feature/react-router)
• Material UI (feature/material-ui)

Getting started

Installing with git

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/badsyntax/react-seed.git my-project

Installing with yeoman

1. npm install -g yo
2. npm install -g generator-react-seed
3. Use the generator like so: yo react-seed

npm scripts

• npm start - Build and start the app in dev mode at http://localhost:8000
• npm test - Run the tests
• npm run build - Run a production build

Examples

Writing components:

// Filename: Menu.jsx
 
'use strict';
 
import './_Menu.scss';
import React from 'react';
import MenuItem from './MenuItem';
 
let { Component, PropTypes } = React;
 
export default class Menu extends Component {
 
  static defaultProps = {
    items: []
  };
 
  static propTypes = {
    items: PropTypes.array.isRequired
  };
 
  render() {
    return (
      <ul className={'menu'}>
        {this.props.items.map((item) => {
          return (<MenuItem item={item} />);
        }, this)}
      </ul>
    );
  }
}

Writing tests:

// Filename: __tests__/Menu-test.jsx
 
'use strict';
 
import React from 'react/addons';
import { expect } from 'chai';
 
import Menu from '../Menu.jsx';
import MenuItem from '../MenuItem.jsx';
 
// Here we create a mocked MenuItem component.
class MockedMenuItem extends MenuItem {
  render() {
    return (
      <li className={'mocked-menu-item'}>{this.props.item.label}</li>
    );
  }
}
 
// Here we set the mocked MenuItem component.
Menu.__Rewire__('MenuItem', MockedMenuItem);
 
describe('Menu', () => {
 
  let { TestUtils } = React.addons;
 
  let menuItems = [
    { id: 1, label: 'Option 1' },
    { id: 2, label: 'Option 2' }
  ];
 
  let menu = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(
    <Menu items={menuItems} />
  );
  let menuElem = React.findDOMNode(menu);
  let items = menuElem.querySelectorAll('li');
 
  it('Should render the menu items', () => {
    expect(items.length).to.equal(2);
  });
 
  it('Should render the menu item labels', () => {
    Array.prototype.forEach.call(items, (item, i) => {
      expect(item.textContent.trim()).to.equal(menuItems[i].label);
    });
  })
 
  it('Should render the mocked menu item', () => {
    expect(menuElem.querySelectorAll('li')[0].className).to.equal('mocked-menu-item');
  });
});
 

Sass, CSS & webpack

import Sass and CSS files from within your JavaScript component files:

// Filename: app.jsx
import 'normalize.css/normalize.css';
import './scss/app.scss';

• Important note: If you're importing component Sass files within your JavaScript component files, then each sass file will be compiled as part of a different process, and thus you cannot share global references. See this issue for more information.
• Sass include paths can be adjusted in the webpack/loaders.js file.
• All CSS (compiled or otherwise) is run through Autoprefixer.
• CSS files are combined in the order in which they are imported in JavaScript, thus you should always import your CSS/Sass before importing any other JavaScript files.
• Use an approach like BEM to avoid specificity issues that might exist due to unpredicatable order of CSS rules.

HTML files

All required .html files are compiled with lodash.template and synced into the ./build directory:

// Filename: app.jsx
import './index.html';

• You can adjust the lodash template data in the webpack/loaders.js file.

Conventions

• Use fat arrows for anonymous functions
• Don't use var. Use let and const.

Releasing

1. npm version patch
2. git push && git push --tags
3. npm login (Optional)
4. npm publish

Credits

This project was initially forked from https://github.com/tcoopman/react-es6-browserify

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Richard Willis

MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)