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A boilerplate for building static sites withWebpack,React andReact Router.

Quick Start:

• git clone https://github.com/iansinnott/react-static-boilerplate my-static-site
• cd my-static-site && rm -rf .git
• npm install
• npm start to run a dev server
• Write an awesome client-side app...
• npm run build to minify, package and generate static HTML files from your routes

Now you're all set to deploy to your favorite hosting solution 🍻

To check your production build use pushstate-servernpm install pushstate-server -gpushstate-server build

NOTE: It's important to runnpm run build andnotnpm build. The latter will silently exit because it is a native NPM command.

Webpack 2 was just released. In celebration, here are some fun new features:

• Dev tooling is a dependency! It is no longer part of this repo. This means future upgrades will be a breeze.
• Support for Webpack 2
• Fully mocked client side environment, so code that requires the DOM/BOM should still compile
• Support forwebpack-dashbaord + improved dev server logging (npm run start:dashboard)
• Asset fingerprinting to make long-term caching a breeze (Adds hash to output files. Exapp.72266bec.js)
• Analyze the size of your bundlewebpack-bundle-analyzer plugin (npm run build:analyze. See screenshot below of output below)

npm run start: Start a dev server

npm run start:dashboard: Start a dev server with Webpack Dashboard

npm run build: Compile, minify and fingerprint everything and create static files from routes

npm run build:analyze: Same as above, but will also outputwebpack-bundle-analyzer-stats.json andwebpack-bundle-analyzer-report.html for you to analyze. Open the HTML file in a web browser to analyze the bundle. Or from the CLI:

open build/webpack-bundle-analyzer-report.html

• A single source of truth: Your routes
• Intuitive. Leverage existing front-end knowledge
• Awesome developer experience
• Flexible. No file structure or naming conventions required. Use whatever modules you want

Important Note: This boilerplate does not yet support generating static sites for dynamic routes such aspost/:id. That's the next major feature addition (see theRoadmap below) but it hasn't been implemented yet.

For more info seethis issue on the react-static-webpack-plugin repo.

This boilerplate is slightly opinionated, especially when it comes to CSS. Don't worry, you can easily change any of this but by default I useStylus andCSS Modules for compiling CSS.

There is certainly no need to use Stylus for styling your static pages. Use whatever you like best. But Stylus does support standard CSS syntax so if you don't want to set up anything new just start writing CSS in any of the*.styl files and watch it compile as expected 😆

This boilerplate uses Stylus for page styling by default. It's pretty simple to swap out stylus for Sass, Less or even plain CSS. Just update the Webpack config files (bothwebpack.config.dev.js andwebpack.config.prod.js) to use your loader of choice. If you're not sure how to do this check out theWebpack loaders documentation.

CSS Modules are provided as part of the css-loader itself. For more info check out theCSS Loader docs. If you haven't heard of CSS Modules check outGitHub repo. Basically it lets you write styles local to any component or file. In my experience it makes styling much more pleasant and much less error prone.

Of courseif you don't want to use this feature you don't have to.

To disable CSS modules you just need to replace to Webpack config lines for dev and prod:

// webpack.config.dev.js// Replace this...'css?modules&importLoaders=2&localIdentName=[name]__[local]__[hash:base64:6]',// ...with this.'css',

// webpack.config.prod.js// Replace this...loader:ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style','css?modules&importLoaders=2!autoprefixer!stylus'),// ...with this.loader:ExtractTextPlugin.extract('style','css!autoprefixer!stylus'),

This project will generate all the static files you need to server a full, production-ready website. However your server will likely need some configuration so that it maps the same URLs React Router uses to actual static files. For example, the "about" page might have the following URL according to React Router:/about.

However, a static server without any configuration would see the URL/about and return a 404 because it expects a URL of/about.html to actually server the file. There are many ways to handle this on different systems. Here is how you might handle it with Nginx.

This project contains a script to help generate a usable Nginx config. To run it:

npm run -s conf

This will output the config to stdout. Redirect it as you see fit to save it to disk:

npm run -s conf > my-site.conf

Once you've saved the file you can sym link it into place and reload Nginx. This is just an example, your path to Nginx will vary based on system:

ln -s $PWD/my-site.conf /path/to/nginx/conf-files/static-fun.confnginx -s reload

First, make sure youhave Docker installed and running on your system. Then proceed.

This repository includes a Docker Compose config file for quickly setting up an Nginx server to test your static site. To run it, simply run:

npm run -s conf > nginx.confdocker-compose up

Now rundocker ps to get the IP address and port where the container is running. If you're using Docker Machine this will likely be something like192.168.99.100:8080.

If you don't have Nginx yet install it withbrew:

brew install nginx

Now generate an Nginx config file using the script in this project:

npm run -s conf > nginx.conf

Then link that file we just created in to the global Nginx config file and reload Nginx:

mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/nginx/serversln -s $PWD/nginx.conf /usr/local/etc/nginx/servers/static-fun.confnginx -s reload

For further reading on the primary tech used in this boilerplate see the links below:

• Webpack
• Babel
• React
• React Router
• Stylus
• CSS Modules

• AddDocker Compose to run a production-like server on demand for manual testing
• Add readme docs for testing a prod site with Docker and Docker compose
• Support fordynamic content
• Leverage code splitting for efficient bundling and async module loading
• Improved SVG tooling

Redux is supported. Just be sure to tell the plugin where to find your store so that it can be passed through a<Provider> during the static rendering. You can configure this inapptime.config.prod.js using theReactStaticPlugin configuration function:

// apptime.config.prod.jsmodule.exports=(config,apptime)=>({  ...config,// Base config  ...apptime.ReactStaticPlugin({routes:'./client/routes.js',reduxStore:'./client/redux/store.js',// Add redux storetemplate:'./template.js',}),});

// ./client/store.jsimport{createStore}from'redux';importsomeReducerfrom'../reducers';conststore=createStore(someReducer);exportdefaultstore;

👉Go here for a full working Redux example.

Make sureBABEL_ENV is not set todevelopment when building. If it is babel will likely throw a hot module replacement error since HMR transformations are getting run on everything that goes through babel.

Thefont-awesome-webpack module does not seem to work with the approach of generating files as UMD modules then requiring them from the public dir. It throws an error about window not being defined.