This repo has all the required bullshit boilerplate for a react frontend with a golang backend. It uses:

• Golang app with Gorilla mux as the backend
• react-mdl for the design
• Redux and redux-thunk for state management
• React router to route stuff

I set it up to server as a micro-lab for working with various autentication options. So, it presents a login form that will post to the backend app on localhost:3000/login. I still need to:

• Set an auth token in the frontend that gets passed in the header
• add TLS support to encrypt it

To run it

• Clone the repo
• npm install
• npm run frontend

Open your browser to localhost:8000/dist

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Here are some notes about creating a self-signed cert to secure the API.

• https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-create-x509-certificate-private-and-public-keys
• https://golang.org/src/crypto/tls/generate_cert.go
• https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2015/generate-free-tls-certs-with-lego/