react-code-challenge-boilerplate

Boilerplate for a react code challenge for interviews

Since companies started to send coding challenge as a measure to examine cadidates for front-end developers, I found myself createing over and over some boilerplate project, and decided to create it as an open source repo to be used for future code challenges, and share it with others.

Stack

• Express server to server the app, with some placeholder for API
• Webpack to bundle the client code, this is being done on the server side.
• React & Redux on the front end
• styled-components for styling the app.
• jest for unit testing
• eslint for linting the code.

Runnning

npm i && npm start and then open http://localhost:8080

Server

Using express, the server is doing the followings:

• Running the webpack
• Serving static file in the static folder, there is a demo static file at http://localhost:8080/static/react-logo.png
• API endpoint placeholder. there is a demo API at http://localhost:8080/api/version

Client

The client start point is at src/client/app/index.js where the react and redux is created and initialized.

In case you need to fetch data from a server there is the src/client/api which exports the apiCall method.