Starter React App

Quickstart

• in terminal, navigate to this folder and type npm install - this will install all the required dependencies from package.json (as well as their dependencies, and so on)
• then, you can just start the app with npm run watch

Tech Patterns

• React
  • Create React App (build process)
  • Patterns from 11/6/2016 videos of reactforbeginners.com by Wes Bos
  • Using React Router 4 (with Match and Miss)
• CSS
  • using Skeleton CSS for a grid layout (and normalization)
  • Stylus for CSS Pre-processing -- type npm run watch during development to keep style.css in sync
• Data
  • Includes sample-data.js for intial data
• Meteor
• Deployment
  • via zeit.co/now and now-serve for quick static site deployment (after npm run build just type npm run deploy)

Goals

1. Be a boilerplate for UI designers and front end developers
2. Add in Meteor for a simple Node.js API and authentication
3. Deploy a free app using Heroku and MongoLab sandbox db - https://www.coshx.com/blog/2016/08/19/how-to-deploy-a-meteor-1-4-app-to-heroku/
4. Deploy production app using galaxy.meteor.com and compose.io

Feature Ideas

• authentication
• mobile navbar
• Integrate with REST APIs