juiceboxes/react-starter-app

React.js starter app

Getting Started

You must be using a version of Node > 7.0

git clone git@github.com:juiceboxes/react-starter-app.git

Build app

1. npm install

2. npm run start

   • starts webpack bundler and serves the files with webpack dev server

3. Navigate to localhost:8002

Testing

• Travis is used to test the build for this code.
  • npm run test will run linters and tests
  • test folder is configured

Technologies

Webpack

Webpack.config.js

This file exports an object with the configuration for webpack and webpack dev server.

React

• High-Order Component

  • a higher-order component is a function that takes a component and returns a new component
    • Ex) asyncComponent.js

• Smart/Presentational Components

  • Smart components have access to the redux state
  • Presentational components do not have access to the redux state
  • Smart Components === insights-frontend/app/js/states
  • Presentational Components === insights-frontend/app/js/components

• State and lifecycle within class components

  • article contains:
    • Adding Lifecycle Methods to a Class
    • Adding Local State to a Class
    • State Updates May Be Asynchronous
    • State Updates are Merged

Helper function

React-redux

• Provider
  • Makes the Redux store available to the connect()
• connect([mapStateToProps], [mapDispatchToProps], [mergeProps], [options])
  • Connects a React component to a Redux store

React-router-dom

When setting up the routes, the page content is wrapped with a .page__{pageName} class, applied to the #root ID that is determined by the rootClass in the Routes.js which lets you easily reference the page in the styling.

• BrowserRouter
  • A <Router> that uses the HTML5 history API (pushState, replaceState and the popstate event) to keep your UI in sync with the URL
• Route
• Switch
  • Renders the first child <Route> or <Redirect> that matches the location.
• Redirect
  • navigate to a new location
• withRouter
  • passes updated match, location, and history props to the wrapped component whenever it renders