Overview

The React boilerplate designed for ServiceNow applications offers a powerful foundation for developers looking to build modern web applications that are fully compatible with the ServiceNow platform. Although labeled as an older legacy boilerplate, it still provides essential features to streamline the development process. This boilerplate serves as a convenient starting point, complete with an example of a ServiceNow scoped app, making it easier to construct and deploy React-driven web applications tailored for ServiceNow environments.

With its user-friendly configuration and adherence to modern web development practices, this boilerplate supports a variety of optimization techniques, enabling developers to focus on building their applications without getting bogged down by the technicalities. The simple deployment process further enhances its usability, ensuring that applications can be easily uploaded to ServiceNow.

Features

• ServiceNow Ready: Designed specifically to build web applications that can be deployed on the ServiceNow platform with ease by simply uploading bundled files.

• Minimalistic Example: Includes a straightforward example of a ServiceNow scoped application, which serves as a practical container for your web app development.

• Configuration Flexibility: Offers a detailed configuration process through the webpack/servicenow.config.js file, allowing for customized proxy settings and REST API calls.

• Modern Web Development Features: Supports essential features like standard React loaders, CSS-in-JS, and hot reloading, ensuring a seamless development experience.

• Lazy Loading and Optimizations: Implements chunks and lazy loading techniques that optimize the application for faster load times and improved performance.

• Security Practices: While development mode requires ServiceNow API credentials, production environments do not mandate these, simplifying the process post-deployment.

• Asset Management: Automatically manages assets like images and fonts within the application for an organized structure and efficient loading, with controls over asset size limits.

• Straightforward Hot Reloading: Enhances the development experience by allowing immediate updates to the application without needing a full reload, which makes it easier to iterate on designs and functionality.