README.md

enye-react-template

This is a boilerplate code to help you focus on developing your react app without worrying too much about the infrastructural parts of building web applications.

Setup Development Environment

Make sure that you have the latest version of node/npm

npm install -g npm

Install eslint in atom code editor. From git bash, run the below code:

apm install linter-eslint

• restart your atom if you had it open
• atom will ask you to install other dependencies (i.e linter, linter-ui-default etc.), just keep clicking yes.

eslint main fucntion is to alert you if your javascript isn't written correctly

Once in the repo, install the npm dependencies:

npm install

Application Commands

If you look in the package.json, there are a 5 commands under scripts. You only really need to run npm run dev. This will do three things, It will:

1. Build your application into a bundle that can be found at build/bundle.js
2. Start your express server.
3. Watch for any code change that you make and restart the browser with the new code.

contains live reload - which means when you add new code, the browser will automatically update

Writing Application Code

The app folder is where you will be writing most of the code for your application.

• If you open the app folder you will see a components folder. The components folder provides you an example to writing your own React code.

If you need to add additional routes to your application, do so in the router.js;