React Starter App

Introduction

The purpose of this starter app is to provide a base project for how to integrate CommonJS, React and Flux with Rails.

Setup

• Clone project and run the following command from inside the project directory

bundle install

• Install javascript dependencies and run the initial build of the JS assets

npm install

Test

Running App

There are 2 parts to running the app.

1. Start up the Rails server

rails s

2. Run gulp to monitor your JS and assets

gulp

Releasing

1. Install NodeJS and NPM on Jenkins server

2. Run npm install before running rake deploy on build server

Deploying

1. Include react_app_cookbook on run_list for node

2. Set nodejs attributes on node's environment file to configure the NodeJS and NPM version