You may only need this if:

• you want to build Single Page Application (SPA) in React, with client side rendering solution;
• you want to use Express framework as web server and also for APIs development.

Please make sure your machine has met the following requirements before you start:

# cloning git repository into `my-project` folder
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/borisding/express-react-app.git my-project

# install project dependencies
cd my-project && npm install

ii) Running app

For development:

npm run dev

In development mode, APIs are called via configured proxy under webpack's devServer option.

For production:

Copy .env.development to ./config folder as .env for production usage:

cp config/.env.development config/.env

Change environment variables in .env to serve your app.

npm run build && npm start

For test:

npm test

Please find out more available scripts in package.json file.

Environment Variables

dotenv and dotenv-expand packages are used in conjunction with webpack.DefinePlugin plugin for managing environment variables. The entire logic can be found in ./env.config.js file. The .env file is named and loaded based on the defined process.env.NODE_ENV value:

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