The code is in experience mode & the docs need to be improved. If you see any problem with it, please correct me. Thank you.

Demo

http://45.79.94.169:3000 (still run on NODE_ENV=dev, so the performance would be slow)

Increase Dev Experience when coding on Client Side Render (not server)

Why?

• Currently we rely on webpack-isomorphic-tools & webpack-isomorphic-tools will run every time we change code (it's take a lots of time - and sometime you need to restart the process to see the changes)
• If you find any better solution, please notify me. Thank you

My Solution

• Write tests for server rendering to make sure content will be rendered into html before sending to browser, see

tests/server-render.tests.js

• We define webpack into 2 config files. 1 for client (dev.config) & 1 for universal (dev.universal.config (see in webpack) & production.universal.config - not implemented yet).
• When coding, we start the client side render process to take all advantages on client render (speed & reloading)

Get Started

• npm run dev-api
• Start a new terminal and run: npm run dev (If you want to try server rendering, run: npm run dev-universal)

Features

Real world examples

• An Blog site with server rendering for SEO Advantage (content will be rendered into Html before sending to client)

Tech

• API (see docs/API.md)
• Hot Module Reload
• Easy to switch between client & server to increase dev experience
• react-toolbox (material design)
• Redux React Local (https://github.com/threepointone/redux-react-local)
• Server Side Render Testing (guarantee content will be render before response to client - SEO Advantage)
• debug (https://www.npmjs.com/package/debug)

Commands

• See latest at package.json

Issues

• Nested Route (waiting for markdalgleish/redial#16)
• Exit on test render on server (maybe find way to force stop webpack-isomorphic-tools)

TODO

• Authentication middleware
• Post Administration
• Add More Testing: (http://redux.js.org/docs/recipes/WritingTests.html)
• reselect
• Try redux-saga
• FlowType
• Refactor webpack
• SEO meta with react-helmet
• Test Render on Server (for Blog Example) to make sure html is rendered on server
  • route to home
  • route to category page
  • route to tag page
  • route to post page
• Config Continuous Delivery
• Add Code Coverage with istanbul

Reference

Starter Kits

• https://github.com/erikras/react-redux-universal-hot-example/tree/simple-router
• https://github.com/tj/frontend-boilerplate
• https://github.com/mxstbr/react-boilerplate/tree/v3.0.0
• https://github.com/davezuko/react-redux-starter-kit
• https://github.com/halt-hammerzeit/webapp.git

Libraries

• https://github.com/bdefore/universal-redux

Examples & Tutorials

• https://github.com/rackt/redux/tree/master/examples
• https://github.com/reactjs/react-router-tutorial
• https://github.com/gaearon/react-transform-boilerplate