gulp-react-express-boilerplate

A Boilerplate Project to start working on React with Gulp and Express on the backend

Setup

Run

npm install -d

to install all the dependencies from package.json

Run

npm install -g gulp

to install Gulp globally. You may need Root permissions to install.

Run

gulp

to start the Gulp task automator and development server

Run

gulp build

to start the build process without running the development server

Info

Once you have the build folder generated, to run this as a single page web app, use only the public folder with index.html.

If you want to make use of server side rending on express on nodejs, then use the server.js to return 1st-time pre-rendered react markup.