React Static Boilerplate

A static website starter kit powered by React.js and Webpack.

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Features

    ✓ Generates static .html pages from React components
    ✓ Generates routes based on the list of files in the /pages folder
    ✓ Next generation JavaScript with Babel
    ✓ Sass syntax for CSS via postCSS and precss
    ✓ Development web server with BrowserSync and React Transform
    ✓ Bundling and optimization with Webpack
    ✓ Code-splitting and async chunk loading
    ✓ Easy deployment to GitHub Pages, Amazon S3 or Firebase
    ✓ Yeoman generator (generator-react-static)

Directory Layout

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├── /build/                     # The folder for compiled output
├── /node_modules/              # 3rd-party libraries and utilities
├── /components/                # React components
├── /core/                      # Core framework
├── /pages/                     # React.js-based web pages
│   ├── /blog/                  # Blog post entries example
│   ├── /404.js                 # Not Found page
│   ├── /500.js                 # Error page
│   ├── /about.js               # About Us page
│   └── /index.js               # Home page
├── /static/                    # Static files such as favicon.ico etc.
├── /test/                      # Unit and integration tests
├── /tools/                     # Build automation scripts and utilities
│── app.js                      # The main JavaScript file (entry point)
│── config.js                   # Website configuration / settings
│── LICENSE.txt                 # License file
│── package.json                # Dev dependencies and NPM scripts
└── README.md                   # Project overview

Getting Started

Just clone the repo, install Node.js modules and run npm start:

$ git clone -o react-static-boilerplate -b master --single-branch \
      https://github.com/koistya/react-static-boilerplate.git MyApp
$ cd MyApp
$ npm install
$ npm start

Then open http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

How to Test

The unit tests are powered by chai and mocha.

$ npm test

How to Deploy

$ npm run deploy                # Deploys the project to GitHub Pages

Alternatively, you can build a production release to manually deploy to S3, Firebase, Netlify, and other static hosts. Simply run the command below and copy the generated build folder to your static host.

$ npm run build release         # Build production release 

How to Update

You can always fetch and merge the recent changes from this repo back into your own project:

$ git checkout master
$ git fetch react-static-boilerplate
$ git merge react-static-boilerplate/master
$ npm install

Related Projects

• React Starter Kit
• React Routing
• React Decorators

Learn More

• Getting Started with React.js
• Getting Started with GraphQL and Relay
• React.js Questions on StackOverflow
• React.js Discussion Board
• Learn ES6, ES6 Features

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Made with ♥ by Konstantin Tarkus (@koistya) and contributors  |  MIT License