create-react-app-fullstack

create-react-app-fullstack

Installation

npm i -g create-react-app
npm i -g create-react-app-fullstack

Getting Started

This is designed for groud up full-stack development. Start by creating your database with PostgreSQL (you can do this after running 'fullstack' as well):

create db <my-app>

After creating your database, initialize a create-react-app with the same name (the name match is default functionality, overriding this is straightforward):

create-react-app <my-app>
cd <my-app>
fullstack

After running fullstack, confirm that you want to eject and the remaining steps will update your app with Express and Sequelize. Currently, an eject is required on create-react-app to get it working properly. I'm exploring ways to work around this.

remember to seed the database!

After the fullstack completes, run the command below to add dummy data to the database: npm run seed

Commands

seed

Before getting started, seed the database with dummy data by running:

npm run seed

start

After the database is seeded, you should be all set. To enable front-end development with hot-reloading, use the same script as create-react-app:

npm run start

fullstart

To automate updates from back-end development, you can run the script below. The difference between this script and the one above: hot-reloading is disabled. Requires navigating to the localhost and refreshing the page:

npm run fullstart

build

To build deployment-ready, we use the same script as create-react-app:

npm run build

nodemon

After this, you can test your back-end code on the built static files:

nodemon server

References and Props

Much of this work was built and taken from the resources below: * [create-react-app](https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-react-app) * [create-react-app-add-redux](https://www.npmjs.com/package/create-react-app-add-redux) * [custom-react-scripts](https://www.npmjs.com/package/custom-react-scripts) * [Using create-react-app with React Router + Express.js]() * [How to get "create-react-app" to work with your API]()

Currently, this repo adds Express and Sequelize to the mix for create-react-app. On the backlog are Redux and SASS, but some of the links above already have functionality for that.

Last, this project was built at a hackathon at Full Stack Academy. Development is preliminary.