React, MobX, React-Router 4, Webpack 2, Express, Knex, Bookshelf, PostgreSQL, Heroku Boilerplate

This is a personal React Boilerplate this I use to help me get my projects up and running quickly. It was forked from mhaagens React Boilerplate. I added Express, Knex, Bookshelf, PostgreSQL, Mocha and Chai, and a fully working server with example routes, migrations, seeds, models, and tests.

If you don't need a backend for your project, I suggest using mhaagens original starter.

Getting Started

• Fork and clone the repo.
• Install dependancies with npm or yarn. (yarn is much faster!).
  • npm install or yarn install
• To create a local database for your project, run initdb pg.
• Start a database server by running Postgres -D pg from the project root on the command line.
• Create two databases. These will be used for the example routes, models, and tests.
  • createdb example_dev
  • createdb example_test
• I've created shortcut scripts for migrating and seeding the database. Run them.
  • npm run resetdb
  • npm run resetdb:test
• To run the example test, run npm test.
• To start the express server for development, run npm run start:dev.
  • When in development, the project uses WebpackDevServer and hot reloading.
  • The WebpackDevServer will be running on port 3000.
  • The express server will be running on port 8000.
  • /api routes will be proxied to the express server. All other routes will be served by the WebpackDevServer.
• Go to http://localhost:3000 to start developing.