React-Node boilerplate app

This is a starting point for a single-page React app running on a Node.js server.

Just clone the repo, edit the name, description, and other fields in package.json and package-lock.json, and build from there.

Features

• A starter single-page React app with very basic layout and styles, and a favicon.
• An Express.js server with a basic logger and error handler, and a place to put API routes.
• SCSS for styling.
• Webpack config files for development and production.
• Basic code splitting: vendor files and stylesheets are extracted to separate output files.
• Minified JS and CSS files when building for production.
• Hot reloading on the React app.
• Environment variables can be declared in a .env file in the root folder during development.
• Code linting with ESLint. The configuration is based on Airbnb's style guide, with a few of my own preferred overrides.

Scripts

• npm run watch: Start the development server. The front end app will reload, and the back end server will restart, when you make changes. View the app at http://localhost:3001, or change the port with the PORT environment variable.
• npm run build: Build the front end app for production. It will go to the /dist folder.
• npm start: Start the production server. You will need to run npm run build first.
• npm run lint: Check the code for style errors.