react-app

Create React App with server-side code support

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Everything you love about Create React App plus
server-side code support (SSR, GraphQL API, etc) and config overrides (Babel, Webpack, etc.). See
the demo project.

React App SDK is intended to be used as a drop-in replacement for react-scripts NPM module.
If you want to add server-side code into your application built with Create React App, all you have
to do is to replace react-scripts dev dependency with react-app-tools plus provide one more
entry point for Node.js as demonstrated below:

Directory Layout

.
├── build/                      # Compiled output
├── src/                        # Universal application source code
│   ├── components/             # Shared React.js components
│   │   ├── /App/               #   - The top-level React component
│   │   ├── /Button/            #   - Some other UI element
│   │   └── ...                 #   - etc.
│   ├── server/                 # Node.js app
│   │   ├── ssr.js              #   - Server-side rendering, e.g. ReactDOMServer.renderToString(<App />)
│   │   ├── api.js              #   - GraphQL API endpoint
│   │   └── index.js            #   - Node.js app entry point
│   └── index.js                # Client-side app entry point, e.g. ReactDOM.hydrate(<App />, container)
└── package.json                # List of project dependencies and NPM scripts

package.json

{
  "main": "build/server.js",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=8.10"
  },
  "dependencies": {
+   "express": "^4.6.14",
    "react": "^16.8.4",
    "react-dom": "^16.8.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
-   "react-scripts": "^1.1.1"
+   "react-app-tools": "^3.1.0-preview.7"
  },
  "scripts": {
-   "start": "react-scripts start",
+   "start": "react-app start",
-   "build": "react-scripts build",
+   "build": "react-app build",
-   "test": "react-scripts test"
+   "test": "react-app test"
  }
}

src/index.js - Client-side rendering

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import App from './components/App';

ReactDOM.hydrate(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

src/server/index.js - Server-side rendering and/or API endpoint

const path = require('path');
const express = require('express');
const React = require('react');
const ReactDOMServer = require('react-dom/server');
const App = require('../components/App');
const stats = require('./stats.json');

const app = express();

app.get('*', (req, res) => {
  res.send(`
    <html>
      <body>
        <div id="root">${ReactDOMServer.renderToString(<App />)}</div>
        ${stats.entrypoints.main.assets.map(
          src => `<script src="${src}"></script>`
        )}
      </body>
    </html>
  `);
});

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
  app.listen(process.env.PORT, 8080);
} else {
  module.exports.default = app;
}

You can launch the app in development mode by running:

$ npm install
$ npm start

Then open http://localhost:3000/ to see your app.
When you’re ready to deploy to production, create a minified bundle with npm run build.

For more information refer to Create React App documentation:

Join our Telegram chat for support and feature requests - https://t.me/reactapp

How to Customize

Create webpack.config.js file in the root of your project that extends the
default Webpack configuration. For example:

module.exports = () => {
  const [
    browserConfig,
    serverConfig,
  ] = require('react-app-tools/config/webpack');
  return [
    browserConfig,
    {
      ...serverConfig,
      plugins: {
        ...serverConfig.plugins.concat(
          new LimitChunkCountPlugin({ maxChunks: 1 })
        ),
      },
    },
  ];
};

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License

MIT © 2016-present Facebook, Kriasoft.

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Last Release Namev3.0.5 (Posted on )
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Created At2016-05-12 16:51:40
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