React App + ASP.NET Core

This application is a combination of create-react-app and a super basic ASP.NET Core API. It is very much based on this excellent guide from Fullstack React on running create-react-app with a node api.

Install and run

npm install
npm start

Navigate to localhost:3000 in your browser.

Basic structure

Our app structure is as follows. We install an instance of a create-react-app under /client. This is basically just an application made with create-react-app.

We have a dotnet core app running under /api. This is pretty generic and just has a couple of classes for the sake of example.

How it works

1. In the root directory of the application, there are a series of node modules that interact with the commands of the sub applications.

const cp = require('child_process');

const opts = { stdio: 'inherit', cwd: 'api', shell: true };
cp.spawn('dotnet', ['run'], opts);

2. The root package.json contains a series of node scripts for running these modules concurrently (so we can run dotnet core and the dev-server for create-react-app at the same time).

"scripts": {
    "start": "concurrently \"npm run server\" \"npm run client\"",
    "server": "./node_modules/.bin/babel-node startServer.js",
    "client": "./node_modules/.bin/babel-node startClient.js",
    ...
}

3. client/package.json sets up a proxy to the server.

"proxy": "http://localhost:5000/",