starter.react

An extremely basic app skeleton for Express and React, using NPM as the only build tool.

1. Build tools suck

You have limited time and energy to create excellent software.
Gulp, Grunt and friends sound exciting, but take more work to configure than they save you.

2. Bower sucks

You already have great dependency management.
Bower may be purpose-built, but it's unnecessary when NPM works perfectly for front-end code.

3. Simplicity rules

Your code should be easy to run.
Complex, custom build systems will take new team member weeks to understand.

How to use

1. Run npm install to install all the dependencies
2. Run npm run build:js to build the React code in client/src with Browserify and Babel. It outputs to client/build/bundle.js.
3. Run npm run watch to do this automatically on every file change.