Overview:

The Universal React Starter Kit is a server-side rendering React scaffolding designed to provide a comprehensive set of the latest and coolest front-end technologies. It is highly configurable and feature-rich, powered by webpack for code hot reloading, SASS for CSS preprocessing, and includes unit testing, code coverage reporting, and code splitting. The main goal of this project is to facilitate robust, simplified, and enjoyable front-end development. All the required libraries are ready and waiting to be used.

Features:

• react: A popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
• redux: A predictable state container for JavaScript apps.
• react-router: A routing library for React-based applications.
• react-router-redux: A simple middleware to integrate react-router with Redux.
• webpack: A module bundler for modern JavaScript applications.
• babel: A JavaScript compiler that can transform code written in the latest version of ECMAScript into backward-compatible versions.
• koa: A minimal web framework for Node.js that is highly extensible.
• karma: A simple and flexible test runner for JavaScript.
• eslint: A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript.

Installation:

To get started with the Universal React Starter Kit, please ensure that you have the following requirements configured:

• Node v4.5.0 or higher
• npm v3.0.0 or higher

Once you have confirmed your environment configuration, follow these steps:

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Open a terminal window and navigate to the project directory.
3. Install the project dependencies by running the following command: npm install
4. Start the development server by running the command: npm start
5. Open your web browser and visit the URL http://localhost:3000
6. You should see the project running successfully.

During the development process, you will primarily use the npm start command. However, there are several other commands available for various purposes:

• npm run start: Starts the server on port 3000 with code hot reloading enabled.
• npm run compile: Compiles the program and generates the output files in the default ~/dist directory.
• npm run dev: Same as npm start, but also starts the nodemon process.
• npm run dev:no-debug: Same as npm run dev, but disables the development tool (devtool).
• npm run test: Starts the Karma test runner and generates code coverage reports.
• npm run test:dev: Starts the Karma test runner in watch mode, retesting on file changes, and generates code coverage reports.
• npm run deploy: Starts code linting and testing, and if successful, compiles the code into the ~/dist directory.
• npm run deploy:dev: Same as npm run deploy, but sets NODE_ENV to “development”.
• npm run deploy:prod: Same as npm run deploy, but sets NODE_ENV to “production”.
• npm run lint: Checks all .js files for code style conformity.
• npm run lint:fix: Checks all .js files for code style conformity and fixes any issues.

Summary:

The Universal React Starter Kit is a highly configurable and feature-rich server-side rendering React scaffolding. It provides a comprehensive set of front-end technologies and aims to facilitate robust, simplified, and enjoyable front-end development. The project includes all the necessary libraries and features code hot reloading, SASS for CSS preprocessing, unit testing, code coverage reporting, and code splitting. Thanks to the contributions of the community, this project has become robust and successful.