A tiny repository for easily experimenting with modern JavaScript.

Note: This assumes you have Node and npm installed. If not, do that first!

Clone this repository, then cd into your newly-minted directory and run the following:

$ npm i
$ ./run.sh

Navigate to localhost:8080 and voilà! You're all set up.

I've tried to make this as easy as possible to get off the ground, because I remember what a pain it was to get started with this ecosystem. There is no clear-cut path, and there are so many choices! I tried to keep mine minimal. They are:

• Webpack (to build everything)
• Babel (for transpiling back down from ES2015 syntax)
• ESLint (to tell you why you're an idiot—hugely important!)

The ./run.sh file starts Webpack's development server. This server is serving index.html from build/. Don't anything in build/ at all! (Your changes will be overwritten.) Instead write to src/main.js. When this becomes unwieldy, do yourself a favor and look at MDN's introduction to the es2015 module system.