[CraftThatBlock]

To get started on all of this, is there any boiler plates with auth built-in to take a look instead of reimplementing everything from the base up?

[mooshe]

You could use something like Django as an API for React to hit. It has user auth, and if you use django-rest-framework it works flawlessly with React/webpack

[xackpot]

Are you open to using parse-server? It has good auth API's built in.