Web app

Reasonable starting point for building a web app.

Features

• Heavily commented webpack configuration with reasonable defaults
• JSX, ES6, and ES7 support with babel.js
• CSS Modules
• Source maps included in all builds
• Development server with hot reload when possible and refresh otherwise
• Production builds with cache busting and asset minification
• Testing environment using karma to run tests and mocha as the framework
• Code coverage when tests are run
• No gulp and no grunt, just npm run-scripts

Installation

Install node, my favored approach is using Node Version Manager.

Clone the repo and change origin git remote.

$ npm install

Scripts

All scripts are run with npm run [script], for example: npm run test.

• build - generate a minified build to public folder
• dev - start development server, try it by opening http://localhost:8080/
• lint - lint the project using standard
• test - lint and run all tests
• test:unit - run all unit tests
• tdd - continuously run unit tests watching for changes

See what each script does by looking at the scripts section in package.json.

NOTE: to generate a full production build you must run the build command with NODE_ENV=production.

Linting

Use standard for linting. It has editor plugins.