react-redux-meteor

A demo for using meteor (only) as your backend and react-redux as your frontend.

I wrote a blog post about this setup, which explains the setps you need to take to make your react-redux app real-time by connecting it to a meteor backend.

The starting point for this example was the Todos App from Dan Abramov's "Building React Applications with Idiomatic Redux" course (Source code here). If you are not sure how Redux works, watch the egghead.io courses first 🤓

Features

• React & Redux Frontend without any restrictions (no Meteor in the frontend)
• live data "for free" by using a Meteor backend
• optimistic UI
• webpack (even in version 2.0 with tree-shaking enabled 🎉)
• Asteroid as DDP library

How to run

This app consists of a client and a server, we need to start both separately. This might sound trivial to you if you don't come from meteor 😉.

Starting the client

This will start your a webpack-dev-server so you can access your frontend at http://localhost:8080

cd client
npm i
npm start

Starting the backend

To start the meteor backend you first need to install meteor if you haven't already:

curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

Then you can start your backend by simply running

cd server
meteor