This is my attempt to learn how to do a simple login application in react. This is also part of a blog post I'm writing so the commits and tags are done with that in mind.
Most of the react tutorials about this assume you know how React works inside and out but I think the most common application to start learning a framework would be a real one so the best way to start to learn React is with a login form that lets you access a secured application with some sort of authentication.
This is very basic code so keep in mind that's not ready for any production use.
For the router to work on manual page refreshes is necessary to
configure the web server to redirect all 404 error pages to the
index.html file.
If using Apache there's an .htaccess provided in the public directory.
If using Nginx modify the site .conf:
location / {
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.html break;
}
}
If using Express:
app.get('/*', function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'path/to/your/index.html'), function(err) {
if (err) {
res.status(500).send(err)
}
})
})