Overview

The spring-react-boilerplate is an example application that combines a Spring Java backend with a React frontend. It supports server-side rendering (SSR) and includes various tools and libraries such as Yarn, Babel, Redux, react-router, and react-helmet. The project also utilizes Project Lombok and Jackson for Java boilerplate and data serialization. Overall, this boilerplate provides a solid foundation for building Java-based applications with a React frontend.

Features

• Spring Java backend with React frontend
• Server-side rendering (SSR)
• Uses Yarn for installing Node modules
• Babel for transpiling the server-side render function
• Hot module reloading (HMR) of React components
• Redux for state management on both the client and server
• react-router for page routing
• react-helmet for managing meta-data in the HTML
• Type checking with Flow

Installation

To install the spring-react-boilerplate, follow these steps:

1. Ensure that Java 8 or higher is installed on your system.
2. Clone the repository to your local machine.
3. Open a terminal and navigate to the project directory.
4. Run the command mvn if you have Maven already installed, or ./mvnw if you don’t have Maven installed.
5. If using Maven, ensure that Java 8 is installed at a minimum version of 1.8.0_65 due to a bug in older versions that affects rendering performance.
6. To run the frontend in hot module reloading mode, open another terminal window and execute yarn start.
7. Your browser should automatically open at http://localhost:3000, and any changes you make to the files will be loaded in the browser automatically thanks to react-hot-loader.

Summary

The spring-react-boilerplate is a powerful boilerplate that combines a Spring Java backend with a React frontend. It provides various features such as server-side rendering, hot module reloading, and state management with Redux. Additionally, it includes tools like Yarn, Babel, and react-router for enhanced development capabilities. With the spring-react-boilerplate, developers can quickly get started with building Java-based applications with a React frontend.